<p>This really is common knowledge for almost all selective schools in the top 15-20. Another common misconception is that the SAT really isn’t that important which is only true if the appplicant has a hook or very compelling EC’s or life experience. For the “typical” overachieving student with 4.4 grades and very good but normal EC’s the SAT is critically important up to a minimum level of at least 2100 and probably closer to 2250 at the very top schools. Once you reach that score then other issues decide admission rather exact SAT scores. If you doubt this then somehow explain why almost all of the unhooked(75 percentile) have nearly perfect SAT’s at HYPS(and slightly lower at other top schools). Very high SAT’s alone won’t assure admission but almost all students offered admission come from this small group of students with very high scores.</p>