<p>“I know three kids with near perfect SATs. Two are at Harvard and one is at Yale. And a perfect ACT I know is also at Harvard. There’s apparently only 500 perfect scores per year, so I doubt any US citizen with a perfect SAT score ever gets rejected from anywhere.”</p>
<p>That’s not true. Perfect scorers get rejected, as do valedictorians.</p>
<p>There was an article that Duke put out, noting that only about half their applicants had schools who ranked, but of those who did, if they just took valedictorians and no one else, they would fill their class several times over. I know it’s been linked here on CC, just can’t find it right now. </p>