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Will a 3/3/4/4/5 Keep me out of HYPSColumbia??
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Replies to: Will a 3/3/4/4/5 Keep me out of HYPSColumbia??
Not an adcom, so can't answer your question. But, obviously, higher is always better, particularly for unhooked applicants.
As others have posted, test scores are just one piece of your ~6 piece application mosaic. (And, of the test scores, AP scores are a wild card, since technically they are not supposed to be used for admission, but they are.). The consensus is that the six app pieces are: your transcript, (which counts for two or three pieces: gpa+strength of schedule+rank, if available), test scores (SAT/ACT + Subject Tests, essays, teacher recs, GC rec, & any optional items. Only a few hundred apps each year are superstars on all six pieces. And those are auto admits. The adcom's work is in reviewing the applications from the unhooked masses who aren't superstars in all six....
Apply and good luck.
Apply anyway.