Will Perfect SAT and ACT Scores Get YOUR Student In?
Monday, May 5th, 2008Hey Guys,
I ran across this article in the Austin Statesman. Most people assume great scores is all you need to get into a great school. Unfortunately, much more is involved and that’s what we are here for.
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Here’s the article:
Perfect college entrance exam scores don’t help student who dreamt of the Ivy Leagues
Despite perfect scores on the SAT and ACT, a LBJ Liberal Arts Academy student failed to make it into his dream schools.
By Laura Heinauer
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Things were going, well, perfectly for Navonil Ghosh up until several weeks ago.
The college-bound LBJ High School Liberal Arts and Science Academy senior racked up more than 400 hours volunteering in local hospitals and libraries. He plays the piano, is a first-degree black belt in Kung Fu and got a perfect score on both the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. Ghosh had mailed out all of his college applications and was just waiting for the acceptance letters to come pouring in.
But the letters that began filling his mailbox were of a different kind.
The first rejection came from Stanford University in California, but the hits kept coming. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From Ivy League institutions: University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale, where he was wait-listed. But the biggest disappointment came from Harvard University, which Ghosh had chosen as his “dream school” based on the course offerings. Even the Plan II honors program at the University of Texas turned him down.