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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.[/quote]
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable. [/quote]

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian 
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf[/quote]
If you think every 1580 kid who applies to Dartmouth is getting in, you have a lot to learn. [/quote]

If you think a 1250 SAT is getting in because they play tuba or lacrosse, you have a lot to learn.[/quote]
Lacrosse or football or basketball, probably.

There's a reason why Ivies are so secretive about their recruits' SAT scores.[/quote]
The specific kid I was thinking of played football at Harvard with a 1300, shortly before test optional began.

One has to assume Duke is willing to go even lower for basketball players.

The specific post to which I was responding said:
[quote]Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in[/quote]
Given the number of very high stats kids turned away from these schools, and the number of recruited athletes who attend with much lower stats, to say that “only smart kids” attend, and to imply that the reason a very high stats kid can’t get in is that they aren’t smart, is offensive.

Everyone understands that very high stats kids don’t get in because the schools are too small, and they care more about basketball/hockey/football than they do about maximizing the number of very smart kids that they educate. Which is fine, those are their values and that’s their choice. But don’t say the kids turned away aren’t smart. [/quote]

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