Chances for an international with unfortunate SATs?

stacy
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:04:22 +0000

In response to MFWN’s post, while I agree that people who bring diversity to the school are often given more leeway with SAT scores, and race is definitely one of them (perhaps even the most common) it should be noted that there are lots of ways other than race for this to occur. For example, maybe someone has won international math competitions but has a 390 on the verbal section of the SATs.

Other things that might get someone a “boost” include sports ability, living somewhere that doesn’t send many people to Smith (Mongolia, Afghanistan, South Dakota) having family members who attended (and/or donated lots of money to) Smith, overcoming a disability, economic hardship, family difficulties, and others too numerous to mention.