Lowest Score Possible for Elite School Applicant with no hooks

cptofthehouse
Sun, 19 May 2019 15:42:08 +0000

Perhaps someone knows what the lowest scores of an unhooked Harvard admittance in last 5 years. That means non athlete, development,legacy, celebrity, national or world class in something, extreme povery, trauma, URM. That still doesn’t cover all the hidden hooks.

Though I suspect that test score number is pretty danged high, I think it’s possible to find some outliers as you work through the list of other selective schools. Vanderbilt, for example, is often on top 20 lists. I think there may be accepted students who fall into their lowest 25% range in test scores. But you never really know if those accepted student didn’t have some other thing going that is not likely to be discovered without intense examination.

I mention Vanderbilt deliberately because I do know of such cases where relationships were the hidden hooks for a lower test score kid getting accepted.