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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2020, there were 22,000 students who scored above a 1550 on the SAT. That is the top 1%. There were 21,000 students who scored a 35 or 36 on the ACT.

This student is certainly exceptional at test taking (and maybe he has an exceptional transcript to match) but he is competing against the other 22k kids who got the exact same scores.

Harvard offered admission to exactly 2,056 students this year.

Princeton admitted 1,890.

Yale admitted 2,272.

See how this works? 22,000 students with that near perfect SAT score. We can't add the perfect SAT kids with the perfect ACT kids, because there is certainly overlap with some students taking both and getting a top score on both, so let's just go with the SAT number only, since Charlie from TikTok listed SAT scores.

If we are going purely on scores, there are 20k students who will not be admitted because of the number of slots. I think the problem is that many of these students (and their parents) are unable to understand quite how many students are just as competitive as their child. 
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All of this. And it’s funny how some posters think they know the definition of meritocracy. I work for a multinational highly sought after company and we’ve done the analysis that the people over the long term aren’t those with the highest GPA or test scores. It’s those with high scores but also indications that they have grit and work hard. The 3.5 college GPA + a job trumps a 4.0 GPA any day. [/quote]

Or you know, 4.0 GPA + a job.

The reason "multinational" companies (funny how you post that as if its a prestigious thing) have many non-high GPA/test score graduates long-timers is because these companies are not particularly prestigious nor pay well.

The top students tend to go to high paying industries (banking, tech) and have enough to retire by the time they are 30-40, or go on to work for smaller companies with more scope rather than office politics. [/quote]

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