<p>I know this much. There are plenty of people at my D’s school who scored above 1450. Her boyfriend is one of them! LOL. And he told her the other day he thought she was smarter than he was and to ignore the SAT. (She did fine, just not above 1450 cr and math or 2150 total.)</p>
<p>If I were an admissions officer at Harvard, Princeton or Yale what would I do? I don’t honestly know. Its a tough job to be sure. You have to be sanguine about it all. What I am harping upon is that schools openly disclose the facts and tell people up front what the score is. Teachers and counselors and parents would do their children a great service by advising them that their gpa and sat score should not limit them in their college search, either for the elites or for the fourth tier of schools, wherever they fall on the spectrum. Fit is more than an SAT score. True, its one factor that must be considered. Someone with a low average SAT score 1100 lets say, should not likely apply to Harvard, because even if they get in, they will likely not be happy and will likely struggle and feel overwhelmed. Nobody wins that game. Though, if Harvard has statistics to show that kids they have admitted in the past with low average scores have actually done just fine, I would love to see those stats?</p>
<p>Hawkette: THERE is a stat I would be VERY curious to see. For schools who are considered elite (top 25 and top LAC’s), what percentage of them admitted students with low average SAT’s and how many kids did they admit with scores like that and if they followed them through college, how did they do? Did they blow out, or did they excel, or did they do okay B-C avg?</p>