<p>Honestly, there are many kids with a 3.5 GPA and an SAT of 1980 who would have no problem doing the work at Harvard. But they’re not going to be admitted. The question is, how many apply?</p>
<p>When I look at the results threads (such as the one for Yale RD, which I was looking at today), the typical rejected student looks, to me, to have a GPA between 3.8 and 4.0, and an SAT of around 2100. He or she has pretty good ECs, but they mostly in the local school. Most of them are accepted by really good schools in the next tier. Maybe these aren’t typical, because these are CC kids.</p>