2400 on SAT as a junior

an_enigma
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:12:20 +0000

Alternatively, there was a kid in my school named Navonil Ghosh who got a 2400 on the SAT and a 36 on the ACT. He got rejected by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn, etc. Heck, he even got rejected by UT Plan 2 Honors.
Refer to these websites:
[When Perfect Scores Aren?t Enough](http://www.omniaceducation.com/education-blog/bid/4856/When-Perfect-Scores-Aren-t-Enough)
[The College Planning Blog Blog Archive Will Perfect SAT and ACT Scores Get YOUR Student In?](http://blog.college-financial.com/2008/05/05/will-perfect-sat-and-act-scores-get-your-student-in/)
The first article states that there was something about Navo, that made all of these top colleges, and the UT Honors Program dislike him. Now, I don’t really know Navo well enough to critique his attitude and he’s a really nice kid, but I’ll do it anyways. From the portrayal of his reaction to the Harvard rejection in the second article, it seemed as if he studied that hard not because he had a passion for learning, but to please his dad and get admitted into all of these top notch colleges. In fact, by the diverse lists of colleges he applied to, it seems more as if he cared more about the prestige of the colleges than the opportunities that each college offered to its students and how those opportunities fit in with his interests. College admissions officers must have easily seen this attitude when they read his essays and interviewed him. Thus, they rejected him.