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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you want to be at 50%. for Princeton that's 1550. it all depends how highly selective you mean.

would I send a 1540 to Princeton? Sure, okay. Would I send a 1500? No, not unless your student is a recruited athlete and even then I'd tell the coach and then probably leave off. 1520 is 25% so I wouldn't send anything below that.[/quote]

This is terrible advice.  Absolutely send a 1500 to Princeton…recruited athletes are fine with a 1400 depending on the sport (yes, you can be lower for football vs squash).

Again, Princeton is not accepting a kid with a 1540 vs a 1500 because of the 40 point SAT score.  The 1500 absolutely meets a minimum threshold and now all the other aspects of your application are more important.  1500 just reinforces that yes your intellect is more than capable of doing well…now the rest of your application tells us if you have all the other attributes they need in addition to intellect (whatever those may be) to do well.

You think that Princeton is only advancing 1540+ into the further review pile but you are wrong.  They are advancing many more into that pile with lower scores, making acceptance decisions and then determine what the mean/median scores are for the accepted group.

It is no surprise that kids with these really high scores are also very accomplished on a whole range of other metrics. In the rare instance of a kid I knew with a 1600 that had little else to show…that kid was rejected everywhere.[/quote]

We all know this. 1600 and very little else to show will get you rejected everywhere. I think a lot of parents have no idea what these schools require post covid if you're a white suburban unhooked kid. These kids will kill it in the world. They are extremely unlikely to get into HYP ... and it doesn't matter. [/quote]

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