If I hear, "I got merit aid from [need only school]!" one more time...

Kei-o-lei
Fri, 21 May 2010 15:55:41 +0000

calmom said: “status of valedictorian is no guarantee of admission to an Ivy or to a flagship university in many states.”

e.g., Brown rejects 3/4 of valedictorians, 3/4 of those scoring 800 on verbal SAT, 80% of those scoring 800 on Math; Princeton rejects 3/4 of those with SATs in the 2300 - 2400 range