Ok so I wasn’t missing anything when I asked - because the answer is different if it were a UC, Alabama, Miami of Ohio vs a Brown or Columbia.
The question cannot be answered other than with ‘it depends’ without specifics.
If OP were fair to the group and mentioned specific schools such as Brown, then it’s highly likely it would matter with perhaps a 34 not being enough.
At the UCs (test blind) or Alabama (32 gets you the highest merit), it wouldn’t.
So it’s an unfair question or rather asked in an incomplete way.
