FOOD for thought.........

<p>Yeah I know, I picked jimbob when I was 12 because it was as generic as possible. Jim and Bob.</p>

<p>Still, though, you’re kind of intimidating/threatening. And I don’t like it. I mean, it’s amusing, but…still.</p>

<p>I looked at my school’s Naviance graph for Princeton, and last year’s applicants actually had surprisingly mediocre stats. I’ll just post them here if anyone’s interested; GPAs are out of 7.0.</p>

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<li>5.6 GPA, ~1900 SAT - rejected</li>
<li>5.9 GPA, ~2000 SAT - rejected
3. 6.2 GPA, 2050 SAT - accepted</li>
</ol>

<p>I’m actually somewhat familiar with the one applicant who was accepted: a minority, but not disadvantaged ($25,000/year private school); a writer, not an athlete; admitted across the board to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton… and can’t possibly be a legacy at all of them. </p>

<p>I realize that this is anecdotal evidence and shouldn’t be taken all too seriously, but it seems to contradict the popular opinion that an SAT score over 2300 is a prerequisite for admission to a top school unless one is an athlete or a legacy. I wouldn’t draw any sweeping conclusions from it, but I’m throwing it out there anyway because I thought it was interesting.</p>

<p>For comparison, I have a 6.3 and a 2270, but that really doesn’t mean anything considering how unpredictable this process is.</p>

<p>wow! I hope they take in low SAT guys this year as well. </p>

<p>Not too low though, just about 2000-2150 :D</p>

<p>And I really really hope they take into consideration that Internationals probably can’t prepare for the SAT as well as domestic kids :P</p>

<p>And I really really hope we all get in.</p>

<p>^Well said. :)</p>

<p>seconded (or is it thirded?)</p>

<p>fourthed …yeah, watever. double seconded. :stuck_out_tongue: bwahha :D</p>

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i probably shouldn’t have found that as funny as i did. ahaha</p>