<p>@rk33-- I don’t answer questions like yours (as good and as legitimate a question as it is) first, because none of us work in admissions and know that kind of answer, and second, because if the correlation was direct, you wouldn’t be asking the question. I imagine the answer a counselor might give is that it depends on context. You have verbal confirmation that the scores won’t put you out of consideration, which is nice, but the fact that Chicago rejects the majority of its applicants is a hard one to stomach.</p>
<p>@mathboy98-- I respect admissions officers for having to make difficult (and sometimes inaccurate) judgments like these, but I think that these yea/nay decisions are a fact of life-- on America’s Next Top Model, in boardrooms, and in job hiring. It gives me a little bit of hope to remember that just like different jobs demand different job sets, different college admissions committees are going to find different things appealing in a student. For example, my friend made it into the fly-you-out-on a corporate jet final rounds for an extremely competitive job and didn’t make the first cut for a much less competitive job. Some students are going to get in at some colleges and not at others. It’s good to remember that the admissions decision neither adds nor subtracts value from the student. Getting into Chicago doesn’t make you a smarter person or even a more desirable hire-- it’s what you do once you’re there that counts.</p>