<p>Is there any chance for me to get in to (Harvard/Yale/Dartmouth) with an 1150 SAT I score?</p>
<p>Quick Facts:
-Straight A’s through high school (97.0% out of 100 last report end junior year)
-Will likely be ranked 1st or 2nd out of 70 grads at my school
-A handful of good ECs
-Good teacher reviews
-Some volunteer work
-Canadian (very rural community)
-First time I ever took an SAT</p>
<p>To be aboveboard, your prospects don’t look good. Your GPA is good, but the fact that it is far from commensurate with your SAT doesn’t bode well. Work hard on those essays.</p>
<p>Here are stats of a student already admitted this year to the class of '09:</p>
<p>Drew Housman 5-7 145 Pointguard Jr Calabasas HS - Calabasas, CA 3.9/1140 </p>
<p>He is, however, a basketball player.</p>
<p>jes: You would have to be a recruited athlete, premier artist, politically wired, a URM or a super-legacy.</p>
<p>Cor: where did you see that? as far as I know, nobody has been officially admitted yet to '09.</p>
<p>Go to ivybasketball.com for list of basketball players admitted to all the Ivies, including some admitted last spring. Not uncommon for athletes to be admitted months before even application deadlines. Statistics on the student cited come from <a href=“http://www.ikehoops.com/sub/and1_allstar_16s.html[/url]”>http://www.ikehoops.com/sub/and1_allstar_16s.html</a></p>
<p>If you had anything completely outstanding about yourself, I think you would have mentioned it. Therefore, I’m going to have to agree with everyone else and say you have virtually no chance with an 1150. It’s just too low (plus you’re an international applicant, too). Harvard’s average is above 1500, and the other two aren’t very far behind. </p>
<p>Study HARD and retake, hoping for a 1400+. It may be your only shot, because even 13xx is far below the non-URM/athlete/legacy/etc. average score.</p>
<p>Even the lowest AI band would require excellent grades for football admission at 1150. Similar SAT’s for other athletes would require top 10% in class as well.</p>
<p>PSedrishMD, according to an article in the wall street journal last wednesday, “At most top schools, legacies make up between 10% and 20% of the student body, and are accepted at two or three times the rate of other applicants. Amherest College in Amherst, Mass., for example, accepts nearly half of alumni children who apply, compared to 17% of all applicants.”</p>
<p>I noticed that you say that URM-status is a significantly bigger boost than legacy-status. From the info in this article, I’d say they are about equal, or very close. Please support your opinion.</p>
<p>Statistics can be very confusing. Do legacies enjoy a higher acceptance rate because the college caters to them or because they almost certainly have had better guidance from their folks from the very beginning and therefore are more competitive?<br>
Theoretically, the exact answer could be gotten by quantifying how far below the mean the college has dipped in each of those 2 admitted groups, i.e., URMs & legacies.
Those data are, however, very closely guarded.</p>
<p>in “A for Admissions,” there’s a chapter called “Minority Recruitement” where a former admissions person for Dartmouth releases some pretty crazy admit statistics that i’ll post if i can find it. </p>
<p>in my experience, i’ve seen 11xx URMs get into cornell and brown. i’m dying to know exactly what happens.</p>