Can a 3.6 get into Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stands to reason. IQ is a pretty good predictor of success, SAT is a pretty good proxy for IQ, so...

Not with all the prepping that's done nowadays. That ship has sailed!

Lots of evidence that prepping helps a little (30-60 points). Most of the gain is probably just natural improvement from taking it a second time. I'd be interested to see if correlation to IQ decreases with more repeats; IQ tests aren't valid if taken closer together than a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, the most important thing is skin color. Look at those stats. URMS, internationals, asians, fisrst generation etc. etc. etc. The only kid in DD's school to get into an ivy was a URM. It's meaningless to apply from this area as a white female.

No it's not, my niece got in.

My white, unhooked DD got into a "top" Ivy.

[Anonymous]

I have no issues with well qualified URM's gaining admission to top universities. I admit to some ire, however, when obviously privileged hooked candidates (big money, connections) get in above my own kid when there is a big discrepancy in high school grades and test scores. Nothing I can do about it but it's frustrating for my kid to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard receives tens of thousands of well-qualified applications, and accepts 5% of them. Almost everyone of those applicants has outstanding grades and scores. So, no, your above average student will not get in. It does not matter if he has "great" ECs, for everybody, and especially for a not-so-perfect student, you need to have world-class ECs to differentiate yourself from the scores of others who all look exactly the same on paper.

And what is a real "world class" EC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, the most important thing is skin color. Look at those stats. URMS, internationals, asians, fisrst generation etc. etc. etc. The only kid in DD's school to get into an ivy was a URM. It's meaningless to apply from this area as a white female.

No it's not, my niece got in.

My white, unhooked DD got into a "top" Ivy.

STEM major?

[Anonymous]

White, unhooked DD got into H and Y, in addition to a bunch of other Ivies. And not STEM.

[Anonymous]

Curious, Private or public?

[Anonymous]

Me too- what's the catch?

[Anonymous]

Sure. Harvard opens plenty of slots for athletes, legacies, musicians, artists, activists, writers, legacies, building funders, legacies, etc. See 2015 enrolled class profile below. Yes, this is from Harvard CDC.

3.75-4.00 87.4%
3.50-3.74 8.8%
3.25-3.49 2.5%
3.00-3.24 1.0%
2.50-2.99 0.3%