Retake THESE SAT scores???

nngmm
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:43:28 +0000

The admit rates for the perfect scorers are higher because those are also the kids that win national math competitions, get Intel awards, are nationally rated debaters, published authors, etc. If scores alone made such a difference, all perfect scorers would have gotten in everywhere, but most top schools (HYPMS) reject over half of them. Just go to those forums and look at SCEA results - above 2200 or so the scores seem to have no effect on admissions decisions (all the adcoms also tell that to students at info sessions, but some choose not to believe it - and then you see all the whining “It’s not fair, my scores were better, why didn’t I get in”)