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I'm sure a 2300 would help but that is a little high. As someone pointed out, there aren't even that many people who score that high. After 2150 or so, that's probably where the "X" factor takes over. People with 2400s and great grades get rejected from these schools. Basically it's just sort of luck and you have to click with the admissions people. There are like 100 or 200 or so who are clear admits because they've done something completely outstanding or because they're from an influential background, or a really really exceptional athlete (there's an internationally ranked - possibly Olympic bound - gymnast at Brown. I'm sure she was a clear admit. She is WAY out of their gymnastics team's recruiting league even aside from her other factors). After that, the rest of the kids that get in probably just come across really well somehow, even without 2300s. Or they have a 2300 and get rejected. I think the score to "have a chance" is at least 100 pts or so lower than that. And after that, it's still only a chance. Also I mean, I got a 100 pts lower on the Oct SAT from the May. It's kind of stupid that one person can fluctuate that much in the absence of other factors (I wasn't sick or anything). They aren't going to put so much weight on one day of testing that you have to do perfectly or nearly perfectly at it. If their cutoff was so harsh they'd miss out on a lot of candidates they actually want.
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