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Do you think you would get into your own College/University today?
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Anonymous
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Take your high school record (SATs, GPA, class rank, extracurriculars, etc). Do you think you could get into the University to which you went today?
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Anonymous
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If you took the SAT before 1996, here's a table you can use to convert your scores:
Old New Verbal Math 800 800 800 790 800 800 780 800 800 770 800 790 760 800 770 750 800 760 740 800 740 730 800 730 720 790 720 710 780 700 700 760 690 690 750 680 680 740 670 670 730 660 660 720 650 650 710 650 640 700 640 630 690 630 620 680 620 610 670 610 600 670 600 590 660 600 580 650 590 570 640 580 560 630 570 550 620 560 540 610 560 530 600 550 520 600 540 510 590 530 500 580 520 490 570 520 480 560 510 470 550 500 460 540 490 450 530 480 440 520 480 430 510 470 420 500 460 410 490 450 400 480 440 390 470 430 380 460 430 370 450 420 360 440 410 350 430 400 340 420 390 330 410 380 320 400 370 310 390 350 300 380 340 290 370 330 280 360 310 270 350 300 260 340 280 250 330 260 240 310 240 230 300 220 220 290 200 210 270 200 200 230 200 |
Anonymous
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oops, formatting loss -- first column is your pre-1996 score. Second column is the new number if the score you were looking up was verbal; third column is what the new number would be for math.
Verbal is often much higher now than then; math can go up, down, or stay the same but the changes aren't as large. |
Anonymous
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No.
University is more elite today. Also doesn't have a separate language school which is how I got in before. |
Anonymous
| I would have gotten in, but I wouldn't have been able to afford it with the increase in tuition and decrease in Federal Student Aid. I was full financial aid, full loans and work study, and barely afforded it. |
Anonymous
| I don't think I would have gotten in. But then, I also never had anyone helping me with school work, SAT prep, or applications. It was all me! |
Anonymous
| This just made my day! My score went up 70 points! |
Anonymous
Good point! It was a different world back in the day! |
Anonymous
| I went to a Seven Sisters school. Possibly could still get in if I moved back to my old Midwestern state. I doubt I'd get in from Virginia - too many competitive applicants and my grades weren't perfect. |
Anonymous
Oh yeah, I forgot about geographic affirmative action -- growing up in Ohio probably helped me get into my East Coast school. |
Anonymous
Oh, I totally forgot about that. I am so not getting into Penn. |
Anonymous
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Depending on how you conceptualize "you," at very least, you'd still be from Ohio or you would have gone through HS at a time when you'd have access to SAT prep course, more info re admissions, etc. Either you is your old application (with converted scores). Or you is a 14 year old time traveler that presumably does HS again/now which, of course, involves lots of speculation that is arguably biased by the fact that you no longer look at the world through 14 year old eyes. But you can't deprive yourself of the benefits of both time periods.
A third possibility is that we find a class of 2008 teen who is the demographic doppleganger of your college applicant self (she lives in your state, her SATs and GPA are in the same percentile as yours, her attitudes (ambition, self-sufficiency, savvyness) and abilities are similar to yours) and see what her college app looks like and whether she'll get into your school. |
Anonymous
| All that said, if you were upwardly/outwardly mobile, your kid will be a different kind of applicant than you were. Whether that helps or hurts the kid will vary. But admission to an elite college will matter less to your kid than it did to you. For your kid, it's arguably more of the same. For you, it may have been transformative. |
Anonymous
Good point! I was thinking of myself as young again in DC but not in Ohio. You know what -- I'd just as soon not be that teenager again. I think I'll stop speculating about all this now! 
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Anonymous
Anyone who pulls off doppelganger is probably getting in. |