<p>Is there a statistical study somewhere that shows the different colleges perfect SAT score students (either the old test or the new test) go to? I’m assuming most of them enroll into HYPSM, but in what numbers? Does Harvard have the highest number of perfect SAT score students in the nation? Are there other popular destinations that perfect score students go to (lower Ivies, top public schools, other top private schools)?</p>
<p>I haven’t searched for the data. I would think that there would be a correlation between the number of perfect SAT students at a certain college and that college’s prestige.</p>
<p>tokenadult posted stats once about which schools have the most amount of x score. I don’t remember the link but Princeton had the most perfect scorers.</p>
<p>I don’t know but I can tell you that I’ve seen several stats of CC-ers with the perfect scores but no focused passion or giving (I mean by public service) were flatout rejected. No one wants a high scorer who won’t contribute to their community.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn’t say no to 2400s. lol.</p>
<p>^Cal Tech does.</p>
<p>So does Yale. They don’t want 2400-robots, they want people who they think will make a name for themselves in the future and for those famous people to say “Hey, Yale produced me yayy.” If the perfect scorers happen to be very promising in other aspects, that’s good too.
Also, if their gpa is somehow relatively low compared to their perfect score, that means they are lazy in school and not working to their full potential and using their resources appreciatively, which is also a big turnoff! But that’s usually not the case for most applicants :]
Just putting it out there that it’s more than possible to reject the perfect scorers</p>
<p>Princeton has turned down perfect SAT scores:
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<p>Princeton takes 50% of 2400 scorers. From one perspective, you could think “they reject half of the perfect scorers?!?!” but from another, 50% is about 400% larger than the base admissions rate of 10%.</p>
<p>I am Asian, and i feel pretty angry about affirmative action. They should end it, it just does not seem fair to let a minority who has lower stats than an asian applicant, into a college just because of his race. When are they going to end affirmative action? 5, 10, 20 years?</p>
<p>I don’t want this to turn in to another AA debate, but for me, AA is the kind of thing that destroys my conception of society. I grew up for years hearing adults say “you shouldn’t see race”, “we’re all people” and “color doesn’t matter.” Then you get to high school and realize that the same educational institutions that teach the “race doesn’t matter” doctrine heavily prefer blacks/indians/hispanics over whites/asians. So the original lesson is meaningless and it’s all hypocrisy.</p>
<p>It’s like, even if I work hard and beat the people around me, they’re still “better” for reasons totally unconnected to their performance.</p>
<p>An '09er from my school had a 4.5+ GPA, 36 ACT, etc., and opted to go to a good, but rather obscure state university on a full ride. </p>
<p>A lot is coming down to the economy nowadays. Having a perfect score can open up more scholarship opportunities for students. For some, that’s more important than going to a prestigious, $50K+ school.</p>
<p>The elite universities do reject lots of perfect scores… I have a perfect ACT (36 on all the subscores) and 2370 SAT, and was rejected by HYPS. I think the lower Ivies are a bit less choosy, since one of them took me.</p>
<p>The point is… If you DO have a 2400/36, you most probably have a good GPA to go along with it (3.7+) and with that, theres you’re future. And lets be realistic, Chal here says he had a 36 but got denied from HYPS anyway… did you get into Dartmouth, Columbia, MIT, Cornell, Penn?.. NYU or Georgetown? Because really, once you have the numbers you’ll definitely get to go to a good school. It’s how it works. Hard work pays off. You dont have to go to the top 5 schools. top 20 should suffice:D</p>
<p>I know several people here at MIT who were 2400/36-scorers. One thing I’ve noticed (at least here; I don’t know if this applies at other schools) is that no one EVER talks about their standardized test scores. I was dating my boyfriend for about 6 months before we realized that we were both perfect-scorers on one of those tests (he had a 2400 SAT; I had a 36 ACT).</p>
<p>My sons friend had a 1600/35, 3.98, 12 college credits from a major university will a 4.0 from his college classes and got turned down by MIT. He attended Carleton and is currently pursuing a PhD in Mathematics at UW-Madison.</p>
<p>Scores and GPA aren’t the end all be all. So plenty of kids with a 2400 get rejected because the rest of their application simply isn’t up to par, just like a lot of kids with a 3.8 or a 2150 (low for HYP) get in because the rest of their application rocked.</p>
<p>I got a 2400 on the SAT and I’ll be attending Harvard this fall. As far as other ‘Ivies’ go, I got into Princeton and Dartmouth as well.</p>
<p>^^^So did I (but not attending Harvard ha)…with a 21-something.
Scores help but aren’t hooks.</p>
<p>@la montagne: You were meant for each other. What are the chances of 2 perfect scorers at MIT meeting each other anyway? pft pft… hmm… like 35% as opposed to the 0.01% in the real world… ahahahha… Joke joke!</p>