Last year there was a poster on here that had a similar story as far as low scores go but frankly had a much better life story, in fact an amazing life story. Denied at Stanford accepted at UChicago. The English department at UChicago is ranked #1 ahead of Stanford, Columbia and all the other Ivies, if you care about that. My thoughts are he didn’t make it past the initial look at Stanford due to his low SAT score (1300ish), but as a test optional applicant at UChicago, his thorough look got him accepted.