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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two cents is that Presidential Scholar and NMSF are nice little honors, but in no way determinative in college admissions.  Kids who get those honors did something right.  Some are super bright, some go to great schools, some prep diligently.  Good for them.  But top scores are only part of the picture. I don't think colleges especially reward perfection.  They want interesting kids with great grades and scores, but the stats don't have to be perfect.  A highly involved, passionate kid with a couple Bs and a 2300 would generally be more prized than a straight A 2400 SAT kid who studied all the time.  Colleges want students who contribute in meaningful ways to the school community.  Kids who want to be successful ion college admissions should show that they've done that in high school.[/quote]

Sounds reasonable, but I agree with a PP:  if you look at those Naviance scattergrams for top schools?  [b]The happy green dots seem to occur most frequently in the tippy top part of the far right corner[/b]. [/quote]

It's certainly not the only thing that matters, but YES, test scores matter!  Colleges need the "happy green dots" in the far right corner to offset the lower scoring green dots (legacy, urm, athletes, others) along the spectrum, so that in the end, elite schools can still boast higher than average scores in the 25, 50, 75%s.  In the case of Harvard (just for argument's sake), you cannot have a 75% score of 2350/2400 without accepting a high number of students with that score.[/quote]

As parent of a URM with a 34 ACT, I recent your claim that the lower green dates are URM.  [/quote]

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