Girl with 1370 SAT gets in to 5 Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy League bound: Bensalem student goes viral with 5 acceptances

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2025/05/08/bensalem-high-school-victoria-mathieu-yale-penn-bucks-county-ivy-league-ivy-day-tiktok-video-college/83391829007/

Good for her! She seems amazing and not surprising so many top colleges admitted her. She really shows a lot of passion and initiative and leadership in her activities on top of her high GPA.

And a 1370 still puts her in the 93rd percentile. People need to realize that SAT or ACT is probably the least important aspect of the application (unless it's a very competitive engineering/CS major and they want to see above 750 on math). A 1350 is a great score for a humanities major as that is in the 90th percentile of scores nationally.

+1

My DD (Asian) reported her SAT of 1370 and is going to Bowdoin. Many people told her not to report citing experts/anecdotes, but she listened to our CC and reported it ant had many good results! Our CC said to report 1350 or above for strong schools like Bowdoin.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry for the 1530+ SAT black kids.
This is why they don't get the respect they deserve.
They are the biggest victims.

[Anonymous]

It's cause she's black , no white or asian student would get into any ivies with those stats

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Anonymous wrote:If her parents were educated outside the United States, she’s considered “First Gen”.

“First Gen” is the best hook you can have right now.

And she was a first gen, URM from a high FARMS school. This is the golden ticket trifecta for an Ivy admit.

So the gpa means it's high from a bad school?

[Anonymous]

I thought this kind of nonsense was over. Fudge!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought this kind of nonsense was over. Fudge!

Stop the funding already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League bound: Bensalem student goes viral with 5 acceptances

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2025/05/08/bensalem-high-school-victoria-mathieu-yale-penn-bucks-county-ivy-league-ivy-day-tiktok-video-college/83391829007/

Obviously a midwit … but for some ivies - esp the lower on the totem pole- that is a perfect fit …

[Anonymous]

I can’t imagine how the student must feel if she’s seeing all this hate online. I wonder who put it out there in cyberspace for all to see and comment, and who released her college decision news to the media. She’s 17-18 and to have to go to college with the whole online world questioning your credentials…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry for the 1530+ SAT black kids.
This is why they don't get the respect they deserve.
They are the biggest victims.

You would be shocked to learn how few blacks score above 1530 nationwide on the SAT, especially non-immigrant African Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine how the student must feel if she’s seeing all this hate online. I wonder who put it out there in cyberspace for all to see and comment, and who released her college decision news to the media. She’s 17-18 and to have to go to college with the whole online world questioning your credentials…

+1
So mean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry for the 1530+ SAT black kids.
This is why they don't get the respect they deserve.
They are the biggest victims.

You would be shocked to learn how few blacks score above 1530 nationwide on the SAT, especially non-immigrant African Americans.

Very very very few

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Anonymous wrote:These are TO schools, I don’t understand why OP brings 1370 into the title. It’s irrelevant!

Because there are test required schools.
It's very relevant.

You seem to assume it’s the job of these universities to collect the highest achievers. I disagree. That’s too much of what they do already. Their job should be to make and mold them, not collect them.

It actually is the job of these schools to collect the highest achievers, and that's certainly what they've done in accepting this young woman. She is a rock star.

Test required means just that: test scores required. It does not mean: we only accept students above a certain score. That 1370 indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies at Yale and everywhere else she applied. And all her other accomplishments indicate she will thrive there and be a big contributor to her college community.

Colleges have done the research. Standardized test scores are predictive of how well a student will do. You may not like this conclusion but the pandemic was a real case study.

Correct. And 1370 puts her at the 96th percentile of SAT takers. As I said, it indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies.

These people are insane -- 1370 is a very capable score. Did you know that SAT tracks pretty closely to IQ? So you are talking about a person who likely has a 130s IQ. She doesn't need "easy majors"!

I'd love to know what all these people got themselves, that makes it so easy to say that 1370 is bad.

I happen to have a lot of exposure to SAT and ability. I myself got a 1470 with no prep class and did pretty poorly in college bc I never learned how to study, but I'm fairly accomplished in adult life. My husband got a 1500s score and works in middle management consulting. I also was an SAT and GRE teacher for many years and I know that many intelligent people get 1200 or 1300 scores before prepping. Another long term boyfriend was the first in his family to go to college and sat down and got a 1350 with no prep (or guidance of any kind) and now he's owns his own law firm and is super accomplished. If he had been UMC, he would have had a mid 1400s score after prep.

There are about 80K college applicants every year with "130s IQ" . That's not what interests 5 Ivy League schools with their <10K seats.

1370 SAT does not equal IQ of 130 … possibly ~ 105 or so …
You can only measure IQ up to 2 SD properly - to the extent that IQ assessment is dubious…. and 130 + IQ person would belong in T10

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If her parents were educated outside the United States, she’s considered “First Gen”.

“First Gen” is the best hook you can have right now.

And she was a first gen, URM from a high FARMS school. This is the golden ticket trifecta for an Ivy admit.

She’s not first gen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine how the student must feel if she’s seeing all this hate online. I wonder who put it out there in cyberspace for all to see and comment, and who released her college decision news to the media. She’s 17-18 and to have to go to college with the whole online world questioning your credentials…

She put it on Tiktok?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine how the student must feel if she’s seeing all this hate online. I wonder who put it out there in cyberspace for all to see and comment, and who released her college decision news to the media. She’s 17-18 and to have to go to college with the whole online world questioning your credentials…

She put it on Tiktok?

+1! The kid publicized this. Not a third party.