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[Joanna]

do well in school

I guess that one wasn't obvious....did you even read the thread?

Edited by jsteinberg, 01 June 2011 - 09:18 PM.

[Kal]

-Grades
-Extracurriculars **LEADERSHIP**
-SAT/ACT
-Teacher Recommendations (needs to be personal)
-**ESSAY**
-Interviews

That basically covers it all. You need to do extraordinary. You need to at least meet the baseline of their SAT scores/GPA range (basically 4.0+ weighted/800s in your SAT). Then, they'll start looking at your essay + other information. Don't worry about college yet, you're only a freshman - just do well in school right now. That's the most important thing to focus on.

[ZKK]

You need to at least meet the baseline of their SAT scores/GPA range (basically 4.0+ weighted/800s in your SAT).

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That's nearly, if not max score. How could that be the baseline?

[Volition]

That basically covers it all. You need to do extraordinary. You need to at least meet the baseline of their SAT scores/GPA range (basically 4.0+ weighted/800s in your SAT). Then, they'll start looking at your essay + other information. Don't worry about college yet, you're only a freshman - just do well in school right now. That's the most important thing to focus on.

If you're asian they deduct 150pts from your total out of 2400 (source: my friend's uncle is a professor at yale and has friends on the board of admissions).

[Junsu]

If you're asian they deduct 150pts from your total out of 2400 (source: my friend's uncle is a professor at yale and has friends on the board of admissions).

Highly doubt it. They just want diversity so if you're asian, you're competing with all the other asians that study 16 hours a day.

[Kal]

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That's nearly, if not max score. How could that be the baseline?

You're looking at top notch universities where admissions rates can be 5%.

How can it NOT be baseline? You NEED to have maxed out SAT superscores if you're going to get into these schools.

If not, you better be some famous and amazing writer/athlete/etc.

[Random]

If you're asian they deduct 150pts from your total out of 2400 (source: my friend's uncle is a professor at yale and has friends on the board of admissions).

Lol.

[chess211]

Also consider what you want to do later in life. The Ivy's are not necessarily the best schools for everything, and is not all inclusive of the top schools either. I have a friend who was one of the top 5 or so applicants at CalTech, he won the full ride academic scholarship, yet was rejected from Harvard. So it is a bit of luck as well.

Just do well in school, on the SAT, and the SAT subject tests...and try and have something else that stands out, doing well in a national sports/academic competition or something like that.

Just make sure to apply to more schools than just the Ivy's, as the competition for the spots have increased significantly over the last couple of years.

[Volition]

Highly doubt it. They just want diversity so if you're asian, you're competing with all the other asians that study 16 hours a day.

http://www.mindingth...hes_asians.html

no university would admit this, for obvious reasons

Edited by Volition, 02 June 2011 - 05:14 PM.

[buttcheeks]

have tons of leadership roles in extracurriculars while keeping your gpa high. scoring well on the sat's are a given

[ZKK]

You're looking at top notch universities where admissions rates can be 5%.

How can it NOT be baseline? You NEED to have maxed out SAT superscores if you're going to get into these schools.

If not, you better be some famous and amazing writer/athlete/etc.

lmfao no. Are you kidding me? You don't NEED to have "max scores" or be "famous and amazing" to get in. Absurd. Scores obviously help but your so called baseline of max scores does not exist at all. Where are you getting this information? No more than 300 people a year get 2400. Obviously many come close, 2350+, but this is nowhere near the number of students enrolled per year for top 15 schools. I know this for a fact, and several of my ex-classmates (surprisingly not famous nor incredibly amazing) got into Ivy leagues with 2000-2200 SAT. Not to mention the statistics released by the schools showing average SAT scores. Sure, a lot of them are athletes and other special cases, but that doesn't make it impossible for a normal person to get in. Yes, I do think Harvard, Yale and the other elite schools are most probably out of reach (Harvard lowest is 6.9% btw), but schools like Dartmouth, Cornell & Upenn (along with many excellent non-ivys like WashU) are all attainable with hard work and decent stats.

Oh and out of the three hundered or so 2400s,

"Cliatt said Princeton admitted approximately half of all applicants with perfect SAT scores last year."

It helps, but by no means guarantees anything. And there is no baseline or requirement of max scores or near max scores, case closed.

Edited by ZKK, 03 June 2011 - 03:25 AM.

[RWS]

Highly doubt it. They just want diversity so if you're asian, you're competing with all the other asians that study 16 hours a day.

I have actually heard something like this as well. Not sure if it is true for all schools.

[Seven]

I have actually heard something like this as well. Not sure if it is true for all schools.

It's fairly true for most top schools, but some private universities in California like Stanford are race blind. That's what I hear, anyway.

[Donaldmax]

It's fairly true for most top schools, but some private universities in California like Stanford are race blind. That's what I hear, anyway.

it also seems like all the school adminstrators and staff are white? like in the movies. for all the top schools they are old white men. is this why they acept by race?

Edited by donaldmax, 04 June 2011 - 11:11 AM.

[esskae]

This is sort of unrelated but also somewhat related to the race thing lol, I heard this one school i applied to was REALLY big on acceptance and stuff so if you were gay/lesbian/whatever you were practically a shoo-in. I didn't really care about getting in since it was kind of a random choice since I was already accepted at the school i wanted to go to. So i went in with the crappiest of my art portfolio and talked a LOT about how all my work was about oppression of the gay community etc. and I got accepted over one of my friends who had a REALLY strong portfolio. This is in canada but yeah.

anyhow my point WAS that even though im gay so im obviously ALL FOR BEING GAY but race/religion/orientation/whatever shouldn't lower your chances, nor should it /raise/ your chances of getting an opportunity. seriously, why can't we all be equal.

Edited by esskae, 04 June 2011 - 12:07 PM.