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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2100 is not good enough for top 10 universities. There were plenty of kids from my child's HS with 2300 or better SAT scores, in the top 15% of class with tons of ECs and national recognitions and awards being rejected by top 10 universities unless the applicant happens to be URM. [/quote]

Absolutely wrong. My own DC got into a Top 5 with a score of exactly 2100. Granted, this score was in the 25% percentile for this Top 5 university, but still well within the range.[/quote]

Maybe there were other factors such as legacy, athlete or other hook or being in the top 1% of the class etc. Applicant with 2100 SAT score with no hooks, not URM and so so GPA/ranking will NOT be admitted to the top 5 university unless the kid is URM.[/quote]

Nope. DC is a white girl from the DMV suburbs - two anti-hooks, if anything. DC is not a legacy or an athletic recruit, either. DC does happen to excel, at the national level, in a particular passion. Building a class with kids with many talents is the very definition of "holistic admissions," my friend.

WTF is wrong with you? You have already been told similar facts many times.[/quote]

For 1 white kid with 2100 score being admitted to the top 5 university without any hooks, there are 1,000 white kids with 2100 score without any hooks but with national recognition being rejected. Thank your lucky star your kid got accepted instead of being nasty.[/quote]

But still, this proves you wrong when you claim that unhooked applicants with 2100 will NOT (your own caps) get into top 10 colleges, no?[/quote]

Excelling at a national level in an extraordinary way (holding patents, being published in a prestigious academic journal, having a meaningful book published, Intel, Siemens finalists, IMO member etc. which serves as a hook) can obviously help overcome 2,100 SAT score with not so spectacular GPA but not many kids have these achievements. Whereas URM will not need these kinds of recognitions  to overcome 2,100 score.[/quote]

PP with achieving son URM here. He fits into one of the above categories plus has musical abilities recognized in an international competition, yet many folks keep harping that he got in because he is an URM.  I posted on this site not to brag  ( don't deny I do that a lot) but because I thought the topic was holistic admissions. My point being that the admissions committee looks at the whole person, and not just one thing -- SAT score.  In doing so, I have uncovered a lot of folks who seem to believe they know for sure why he was admitted.  One even asked if I felt guilty because he was admitted because of his skin color. My first post in response was written in anger.  Now I think it is good that people are posting their own points-of-view. In gives us a window into where we are as a society. We still have work to do.[/quote]

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