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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Exactly.  “But RACISM!!”   :roll: [/quote]

Except all these numbers are wrong. Pulled from someone's a*s hole.[/quote]

NP: Which numbers are wrong? According to Prep Scholar, assuming it is a reputable source, the SAT/ACT numbers are correct. 
https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-many-people-get-a-34-35-36-on-the-act-score-breakdown#:~:text=Percentage%20of%20All%20Test%20Takers&text=Unsurprisingly%2C%20a%20full%2036%20is,0.961%25%20of%20test%20takers%20earned.

Do you have another source with different numbers?
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To give you a hint, you need to google "1% percentile of SAT", which I believe is 1510-1520. Then multiple the 1% by the total number of students who took the SAT tests in 2020. Report back here. [/quote]

According to prep scholar 
6500 out of 2.2 million get 1550+
1400 get 1590+
500 get 1600+

There should be plenty of spots available for these students in the top 20 schools and plenty left over for students who excel in non-academic pursuits [/quote]

There are also a lot of kids that superscore to those scores.  I would guess the amounts would more than double.  Then there are the ACT takers (my
Kid only took ACT, not SAT). And the ACT auperscorers.  So it is much higher than you might think.
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