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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:48 again. Harvard used to send out a press release right after the regular decision announcements, saying they rejected XXX number of perfect SATs. The figure was always over 1,000. I haven't seen this in a few years. Either I haven't noticed or they stopped doing it.

On the other hand, I know several unhooked kids who got into top five USNWR schools with SATs around 2100 and fabulous ECs. The ECs were accomplishments at a national level, plus great recs and great essays--these kids did well on the whole package. Surprisingly (to me), the unhooked, non-recruited kids who did the best were from public school while the unhooked kids at Big 3s did less well. (Caveat emptor! small sample size of DC's acquaintances at publics and privates!) The common denominator among the kids we know who got into the very top colleges were GPAs of 3.9 or 4.0 so it seems true (to me at least) that colleges are looking for extremely hard workers--at the top USNWR schools, you just wouldn't survive the first semester if you weren't academically inclined and a very hard worker.

Also, it's a crap shoot. You just have to accept the random nature of part of this process. We feel our DC was very lucky, as much as anything else. This is very tough on the kids who worked like crazy throughout high school, and reasonably expect that the 3.9 GPA should be rewarded with acceptance at their first choice schools. They do usually get into great schools, but not necessarily HYP. [/quote]

If Hravard did that then they lied as there are only about 300-400 perfect SATS each year. For the class graduating in 2013 the number of perfect scorers was 494.
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