<p>If to some of you I appear to be knowledgeable about college admissions, it is because I am an experienced college admissions counselor. I have helped a number of incredible kids get into great schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, etc., and most of them scored below 2100 on the SAT. And no, they were not all URMS or athletes! Hear me, just as long as you can prove that you have special or extraordinary abilities or talents and that your SAT scores fall within a certain threshold (for Harvard that’s 600 to 800 on each section of the SAT and within the same range on the Subject Tests), you have a shot at admissions! The SAT is not the gold standard that you think it is. It opens the door for consideration, but you must make a convincing case of your admissiblity apart from your SAT scores once you are in the door!</p>