Unbalanced SAT Scores

wagsthedog
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:59:53 +0000

I mean, consider what the mid 50% of SAT scores are to Yale. I think, for CR, they are like 700-800, which means that you compare to the bottom 25% of this year’s current freshman class. If you got 800s on the other sections, its definitely not a dealbreaker, but itll definitely hurt you a bit.

The adcoms (both at yale and most peer institutions) have begun to read applications “holistically” (whatever that means), so if the rest of your application is strong you definitely have a chance. I don’t know about SCEA because it is notoriously competitive, but I think if you have a strong rest of application you have a shot, especially in the RD round.

Maybe you should consider retaking, though? Would you be able to get your CR score up? Have you considered trying the ACTs?