<p>You do realize… those scores translated into today’s 2400 are 2200+.</p>
<p>Those are great and definitely Ivy material.</p>
<p>Perhaps your area is just really competitive, or the people you know lack the EC’s or character?</p>
<p>To make a generalization like yours is sort’ve… well… wrong. Look at the percentiles for Harvard and Yale… most accepted applicants are in that range with a lot even lower.</p>