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Anonymous wrote:3.4 GPA
29 ACT
1 AP Class
No EC
Legacy URM

Congratulations!

On what, successfully trolling?

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies are about more than stats. Assume everyone is near perfect.

You should ask about what sets a successful applicant apart.

+10000
I often found it funny when people ask for stats for top school admits. They totally didn't know what's going on.

+2000

Stats are irrelevant. They're all perfect.

I know someone who got in with a 2.7, so ... not so perfect. Just really tall and strong and good looking with an enticing pedigree.

You mean a recruiter athlete?

No, they're probably referring to something that happened in 1947.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies are about more than stats. Assume everyone is near perfect.

You should ask about what sets a successful applicant apart.

+10000
I often found it funny when people ask for stats for top school admits. They totally didn't know what's going on.

The stats are looked at for everyone and are relevant. It's helpful to know the point beyond which it's just not gonna happen.

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Anonymous wrote:So basically if you have a 1600 SAT score you have a shot at IVY.

Nobody got anything else?

No, they don’t care about SAT

Everyone that listed their stats said 1600 so apparently they care.

I looked through Naviance at our school to see which kids got into HYP, and I noticed that not one of the 1600 SAT kids got into Harvard or Yale. One got into Princeton, and one got into Stanford. But the others were rejected at these three colleges. And kids with lower SAT scores got accepted, so I'm not sure a 1600 SAT means much except at Carnegie Mellon.

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Anonymous wrote:The high stats just buy you the lottery ticket...

+1

People keep saying this but I got a PhD at an ivy league school and both sat in a couple classes with undergrads and taught a couple classes to undergrads. There is a sizable minority of absolute buffoons in ivy league undergrad programs. And it's not the athletes

My DD TA'd at a HYPSM school, and was pretty impressed with the students. She said they were all smart. STEM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically if you have a 1600 SAT score you have a shot at IVY.

Nobody got anything else?

No, they don’t care about SAT

Everyone that listed their stats said 1600 so apparently they care.

Anonymous wrote:So basically if you have a 1600 SAT score you have a shot at IVY.

Nobody got anything else?

No, they don’t care about SAT

So basically if you have a 1600 SAT score you have a shot at IVY.

Nobody got anything else?

High school Class of 2016
My kid had 4.0 UW in IB Diploma Program
35 ACT, 1560 SAT, 800 and 780 Subject tests
Captain of 2 sports (not an athletic recruit)
Self-taught an uncommon language, did NSLI-Y summer abroad

Shut out of HYP (including SCEA, not even waitlisted RD)
Got into mid-Ivy RD

6 years later, pretty sure there's no way they would have gotten into any Ivy RD

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to this, so please excuse me if these are silly questions:

What is EC? Is it extra curricular?
What is Legacy?

Yes, it's extracurricular
Legacy = a family member (usually a parent, but some colleges include other relatives) went there

Thank you!

Anonymous wrote:So one actual answer and a ton of speculation.

Unfortunately, that's what usually happens. People are too eager to fill the thread with their comments.

Anonymous wrote:I am new to this, so please excuse me if these are silly questions:

What is EC? Is it extra curricular?
What is Legacy?

Yes, it's extracurricular
Legacy = a family member (usually a parent, but some colleges include other relatives) went there

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know if you got a strong recommendation letter?

Such a good question. My kid moved across country to a new school, then covid hit. Barely knew the teachers who wrote her recs. Very high stats and ECs, good essays of her own, but the letters of recommendation were likely meh at best. I'm sure it matters.

DC had counselors change during the 20/21 year, so this was one year without ever seeing the counselor. Additionally, the counselor messed up the schedule in Junior and Senior years. DC had to straighten the counselor out twice. In senior year she got signed up for classes she had already taken and were not on her ranked choice list.

DC felt very unsure about her counselors recommendation.

I am new to this, so please excuse me if these are silly questions:

What is EC? Is it extra curricular?
What is Legacy?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know if you got a strong recommendation letter?

Such a good question. My kid moved across country to a new school, then covid hit. Barely knew the teachers who wrote her recs. Very high stats and ECs, good essays of her own, but the letters of recommendation were likely meh at best. I'm sure it matters.

There is a little room in some of these applications to submit supplemental information and letters of reference. An example might be a student who did a lot of research outside of school might include a reference from the mentor. They do not encourage doing this unless there is a good reason.

In this case, maybe get a reference letter from one of her teachers from the old school where they knew your student well as include it with an explanation of the situation.