OK MIT, Princeton, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, Franklin Olin

chocolateluvr88
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:03:16 +0000

"But the statistics given are for applicants accepted, so obviously the statistics for those that applied will be much lower. "

Show me the statistics for those applied. I think it will hardly be lower at all. Looking at my school’s TCCI Naviance program, most people that apply to these top schools have top grades and scores. Only a handful apply with statistics below average, and very few apply with below 25% SAT scores.

Look at the decision threads for one of the top schools. You will see that not nearly 50% of students with over 2300 and over 3.9 were accepted to Harvard- and many of these students had amazing extracurriculars.

BTW, I agree with aviatrix completely.