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[quote=Anonymous]Once you're in the top 5% or so and you're in the school's pool, the test scores don't make a difference. They want signs that you might make a difference in the world or at least create a desirable community at the school or be great at the one thing you really care about. Schools also need students that fill out their majors and play on their sports teams and make sure they don't all come from the same socio-economic background. Caltech might not care about those things, but every other elite school does. In other words, if you scored 1500, don't waste 500 hours trying to get 1600. Use that time to do something meaningful to you instead. The Presidential Scholars program starts off by inviting the top 4,000 SAT/ACT scorers, so they leave off the table tens of thousands of equally impressive (if not more impressive) seniors. It's just one (high) honor among many and its timetable comes too late to help in the admissions process. [/quote]
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