Girl with 1370 SAT gets in to 5 Ivies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could not read all of the linked article, and hit a paywall when I went back. But based on what I read, she had good grades, about 4.36 GPA and ECs. The colleges saw that the 1370 in SAT probably correlated to family’s SES. Clearly, the colleges that accepted her thought that she had the goods, otherwise she would not have been accepted. These colleges already got their yield and full pay from earlier round of acceptances. Now they can afford to look for other attributes, like her race to shape the class of students. Regardless, congrats to her.

Where in the world would you assume she comes from a low enough SES that it influenced her admissions? Because she’s black? Because her parents are from
Haiti and Nigeria? GTFOH.

There is zero in the articles, photos and videos to suggest she comes from low SES. You are awful.

[Anonymous]

Low SES? What? Her parents are college educated and she is in a high performing school district. The photos of her home show she is definitely not low income. She sounds like a dynamo. She didn’t get into the test required schools. She likely went TO were available and sent AP scores instead of the 1370 to Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Low SES? What? Her parents are college educated and she is in a high performing school district. The photos of her home show she is definitely not low income. She sounds like a dynamo. She didn’t get into the test required schools. She likely went TO were available and sent AP scores instead of the 1370 to Yale.

Yale is test required.

NP

[Anonymous]

NP it is possible poster assumed the SES based on the median household income in Bensalem, PA is less than $80k but the township (essentially county) has a median of $111,951.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Low SES? What? Her parents are college educated and she is in a high performing school district. The photos of her home show she is definitely not low income. She sounds like a dynamo. She didn’t get into the test required schools. She likely went TO were available and sent AP scores instead of the 1370 to Yale.

Yale is test required.

NP

Yale is “test required” but if you read the fine print they take AP scores instead of SAT/ACT scores to satisfy that “requirement.”

[Anonymous]

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

This. DCUM defines kids by reference to test scores. “My one and done 1550….” Ugh.

How about titling the thread “girl with 4.36 GPA, extensive afterschool activities list, summer legal internship and outside advocacy work gets into 5 Ivies”? Doesn’t quite grind OP’s axe though, does it?

[Anonymous]

Just read the piece, and she seems like a completely wonderful person. Did you see that the Yale admissions
Officer hugger her because her essay left such a deep impression?

This is admissions working the right way. This is the kind of person who really should be given the best educational opportunities.

1370 is one data point, and it's also a respectable score, when balanced by all the other things she is doing with her time. She's a star.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just read the piece, and she seems like a completely wonderful person. Did you see that the Yale admissions
Officer hugger her because her essay left such a deep impression?

This is admissions working the right way. This is the kind of person who really should be given the best educational opportunities.

1370 is one data point, and it's also a respectable score, when balanced by all the other things she is doing with her time. She's a star.

She wrote about the Black community. She's not stupid. She made sure to let admissions know her race. Played the game well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I didn't assume anything. There are TO schools and ther are TR schools. Just pointed out the facts. You assume too much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Do you think professors at Yale have time to mold students? They need to be ready from day one.

[Anonymous]

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

Yale isn’t TO! They are test flexible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Low SES? What? Her parents are college educated and she is in a high performing school district. The photos of her home show she is definitely not low income. She sounds like a dynamo. She didn’t get into the test required schools. She likely went TO were available and sent AP scores instead of the 1370 to Yale.

Yale is test required.

NP

Yale is “test required” but if you read the fine print they take AP scores instead of SAT/ACT scores to satisfy that “requirement.”

Why the snarky quotes around requirement? Why should multiple AP tests designed to mimic college curriculum be less indicative than a one -time test that isn’t anything remotely close to college work? I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.