<p>“No surprise to me. Most colleges don’t require SAT IIs. Only students applying to the top colleges need to take the SAT IIs, so virtually everyone who takes them is extremely smart, and a mid 600s score on the SAT IIs counts for more than it does on the regular SAT.”</p>
<p>UCs required the SAT IIs I think (only reason I took them haha, if I remember correctly). But if you’re saying the curve is harder, that makes me feel better about it lol.</p>
<p>“I don’t see anything wrong with this girl’s ECs, in terms of applying to a Cornell-level college (i.e., one in the lower half of the top 20 national universities in terms of competitiveness). This is not Harvard; you don’t have to have extraordinary accomplishments outside of academics. You just have to have been involved in some things; this girl has, and some of them, including her internship at the alumni magazine, are even a bit interesting.”</p>
<p>THIS. Is what I was trying to say. Cornell is an Ivy, sure, but it is one of the “easier” ones to get into. And I have seen admits to Harvard/Princeton with similar ECs. </p>
<p>Northwestern is very similar in terms of difficulty of admission to CORNELL - so saying you’ve seen people with worse stats admitted to NU just proves my point, really…It’s true it admits a higher percentage of people, but so does UChicago, and idk, people from my school just put Cornell and those kinds of schools on the same level. Maybe we were misguided, but eh.</p>
<p>Yes, I had high SAT scores - and that is the girl’s weakness (and possibly also her grades, but we don’t know).</p>