<p>I know this is really weird, coz the hype around Liu’s been over like years ago, but I just happened to come across this website a few days ago and read about how people said that she got into Harvard, Columbia and such without SAT scores, outstanding extra curriculars or any international awards. In fact she was just a typical chinese girl with straight As at school (but there’s no SAT score to prove her standard) and that she went on this exchange trip to USA once. Is it really possible to get into an ivy without an SAT score? It sounds pretty ridiculous to me!</p>
<p>you know what, i don’t think this kind of things will ever happen again. in the late 80s, students from china don’t even need to take TOFEL, because the number of students is so limited and the competition is not keen at all.as china became more and more engaged in the international affairs and studying in the U.S. became more and more popular, the number of students applying to u.s. universities rise sharply, and then some tests such as TOFEL was brought in china.but SAT is not well known until recently when the number of applicants reaches its peak.it is reported that the number in 2005 is twice the number of 2004, and people have to take SAT to make them more competitve in this cut-throat competition though there’s still no sat site in mainland china and most of the students have to fly to hongkong to take the test. i think liu is the old story and now nobody can get itself to those elite schools without sat score.</p>