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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I had to reread your post to understand what you were specifically asking for.

The answer is yes. You were given a form of affirmative action. Call it geographic / social diversity. An applicant from a rural town in the South is unique by Ivy standards.

I do not know when you attended the school but when I was at my Ivy in the 1990s a score in the low 1300s was not uncommon. Recruited athletes, legacies with otherwise stellar grades/applications, even normal students with one major hook (first chair at the state youth orchestra) could get accepted with a 1300 score and sometimes even in the high 1200s. How do I know this? Had friends who worked in admissions office. And I had high school classmates who got into Penn and Cornell as recruited athletes with scores around 1300 or slightly less. And I do remember reading books on admissions and candidates were profiled including scores. FYI these were white students. AAs and Latinos could get accepted on even lower scores. The typical white student still had scores of 1400+ but 1300+ was not unusual.

Ironically I think there's a much greater emphasis on higher scores now than there was 20 years ago because the sheer volume of applications forces the schools to weed out candidates even more strictly than they did. And 20 years ago was even tougher than 20 years earlier than that.

I also would not move back to the rural South to improve admissions chances. People care too much about Ivy admissions when in reality it means nothing in the long run. If your kid is bright and capable, he/she will be fine. Focus on as good a high school as possible and that will help more than the college, methinks. Being well prepared in high school --&gt; excellent grades from your flagship state university is probably more helpful than unprepared --&gt; low GPA from an Ivy.

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