How I got into a competitive school with a 1410 SAT and weak ECs

lostaccount
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 04:32:44 +0000

It’s great that you got in. But, you don’t know that it had anything to do with how you described your ECs. It isn’t as if you had terrible grades and scores but wrote a winning essay that saved the day. Rather, you did slightly less well than ideal on the English SATs but did quite well on the math.

And about the 18% acceptance rate. The rate differs depending upon other factors. With need aware schools, simply being able to pay full price puts you in a very small group of applicants, for example. It isn’t the case that a great essay makes up for great weaknesses in other aspects of the application. And, AC can see right through some of the strategies you suggest-I doubt that is what got you in.