CHANCE ME - Yale EA

BKSquared
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:30:19 +0000

Yes there are students who get in with low stats, but they are in all cases someone with a special hook/spike: recruited athlete, parents are or are potentially major donors (7 figure +), parent is a recognized world leader, applicant is known celebrity, applicant has won or been recognized for something truly significant (someone like Malala). This is discussed in the thread you linked. I would also add that just looking at admits/admission rates for each band is a bit misleading. Many of the admitted students with a low score in one area may have a super high (or at least a much higher) score in another, e.g. a person with a 600 in math may have had 800’s in reading and writing, giving that person a very competitive 2200 composite score. The applicants who got a low score in each of the two/three sections will be much lower (0 at some point) than the students who got in with just 1 weak section.