Aiming for all Ivies

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Unfortunately, as seen on CC, there’s the rush of overconfidence re: stats and a few hs titles and a dust storm of everyone saying admissions is a lottery or crapshoot. </p>

<p>Agree that the essay itself is less predicively helpful re: end results. But, the functional goal is to get yourself to the last round. When people say crapshoot, they’re envisioning admit decisions as random, from the get-go. They forget that, for a highly selective school, you have to advance through successive rounds of reviews.

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<p>Well said.</p>

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Class rank is already decent enough and your SAT score will need to be at least a solid 2200 or greater to be seriously considered.

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<p>Scores modestly lower than 2200 will not preclude serious consideration. It’s fair to say, though, that they usually lower chances.</p>