<p>The average national cutoff score for the PSATs was 213, which means that approximately 15,000 people (the # of seminfinalists) received above a 2130 on the SATs. Despite this, I have read posts on CC saying that a 2100 is not enough for a top 25 school. There are 3,000 freshman at Cornel, 1700 at Harvard, 1100 at Columbia, 1500 at Brown, 2600 at the UPenn, 1400 at Yale, and about 1200 at Princeton. This leads to a whopping total of 12, 500 students at the Ivies alone. There must be (at least) another 12000, if not 20,000 at top LACs, and other Top 25 schools. So, by my logic, about 33,500 people get into prestigious colleges every year. How can the 15,000 people that get a 2130 on the SATs manage to fill these spots? Assuming that about 10000 people get above 2200 (an average score at CC, a “little low” for an Ivy), how can all of these spots be filled?</p>
<p>that is a whole lot of assumptions+ remember these schools also have to stock their sports teams</p>
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Which should say something about taking everything written on this board by people who “know” with a huge grain of salt.</p>
<p>According to the NMSC letter, around 50,000 scored higher than the initial eligibility cutoff. That’s a lot of people (amounting to almost four percent of test-takers!) The semifinalist cutoffs haven’t been announced yet.</p>
<p>edit: Oh, are you talking about past year’s Semifinalist cutoffs? Still, a lot of people improve their SAT scores from their PSAT scores.</p>
<p>I think the reason that many people say that sat scores of ~2100 arent good enough for ivies is that many people use their sat scores to try and make up for other parts of their app that are weak…</p>
<p>ur supposed to improve after taking the PSAT . . . thats y its called the PSAT . . . as in ur SAT scores are usually higher . . . not 2 mention 213 is a really low cutoff rate. last years was a 218 . . .</p>
<p>and 2100 is fine for a top 25 schools . . . problems occur if ur going for a top ten</p>