if you are Asian and have a perfect sat score you still may not get in to any ivy schools

[DoctorCarta]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: chuckywang
1) One of my friends in high school scored perfect SAT and ACT scores. I would be surprised if there were ten students in his class in the entire country that performed that feat. He did not get into Harvard, Yale, and Cornell.

I don't think perfect scores are that rare. Since they curve the tests, you can miss a question or two and still get a perfect score. I know two people who got perfect scorse and one went to my high school.

I heard somewhere that Cal Tech (I think it was Cal Tech) prefers a student with Math 800 & Verbal 650 over a person with a perfect score. Something about actually being good at math rather than just being good at taking a test. That being said, the guy I know who got a perfect score is a genius (social too).

i read a similar study that showed more and more big corporations rather take someone out of college with a 3.3 to 3.7 gpa instead of a 4.0 + gpa.

 

[alocurto]

Life is unfair!? No way!

 

[alkemyst]

it's really not about learning the tests. It's really about not being social.

I was never a bookworm...my grades were mediocre. However; most classroom tests I came in late, finished first and got the extra credit right...blowing the curve.

On standarized tests I kicked as$ except on the stuff where you had to read long things.

That said I was interviewed by many engineering schools prior to going biology...then I was accepted as to quite a few prior to my AA degree.

Personally I think I am a bad student.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

My SAT's were SH!T and I'm at Brown now...so it really doesn't matter (at least for me)

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: chuckywang
1) One of my friends in high school scored perfect SAT and ACT scores. I would be surprised if there were ten students in his class in the entire country that performed that feat. He did not get into Harvard, Yale, and Cornell.

I don't think perfect scores are that rare. Since they curve the tests, you can miss a question or two and still get a perfect score. I know two people who got perfect scorse and one went to my high school.

I heard somewhere that Cal Tech (I think it was Cal Tech) prefers a student with Math 800 & Verbal 650 over a person with a perfect score. Something about actually being good at math rather than just being good at taking a test. That being said, the guy I know who got a perfect score is a genius (social too).

That is the dumbest thing I have ever read. A guy can't be good at math and also able to explain the process to you verbally using much better sentence structure than this one?

 

[marincounty]

Originally posted by: pulse8
Maybe they didn't accept that Asian kid because they were OVER their quota.

Exactly. I cant' find any links right now, but I can remember reading about how Princeton had quotas for jewish students, they could only have so many, and Columbia didn't -so they had a lot of jewish students. This went on up to the 1970's , and has supposedly stopped, but you wonder...
I wouldn't be suprised if asisan students are also subtly discriminated against. Ironically, I was recruited by Brown in high school, and I have a jewish name.
There are many ways to get a good education, I suggest a sharp kid who wants to get a great university education come out here to California. We have more top public universities than anywhere. UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, all fine universities. We also have Cal-Tech and Stanford, USC film school, UC San Diego, UCSF medical center.