SAT满分被拒名校门外？｜普林斯顿前招生官谈见解

普林斯顿前招生官在我们的上海办公室录制了系列特别视频，今天我们来听她讲讲对考试成绩的看法吧！

YG：大家好，我是Yosepha，InGenius Prep的学生推广主管。我身边的是Tracy Matthews，我们的前招生官顾问之一，她来自普林斯顿和斯沃斯莫学院。谢谢你来到这里。大家都很好奇一个问题：你有没有拒绝过SAT满分的申请者？

Hi everyone my name is Yosepha and I am the director of student outreach for InGenius Prep. I am here with Tracy Matthews, one of our former admissions officers from Princeton and Swarthmore College. Thank you for being with us. So everybody always wants to know, have you ever rejected a student who has a perfect SAT score, 2400?

TM：有的，这种情况并不少见。顶尖的院校能收到很多SAT满分的申请者。但是在招生过程中，我们所关注的不止是成绩，考到一定的高分说明你跨过了门槛，是达到了最低的要求。招生办想看到的远不止分数。我们看申请材料时候，看的是学生整体包括学生在高中的学术表现，比如学生的成绩单，学生选的课程是不是有挑战性。分数不是没有用，我们更想招的是有意思的、能给学校带来新鲜血液的学生。所以我们要通过文书来看学生有什么样的人格，通过老师的推荐信看学生是否积极参与课程，是否能与其他学生高效的合作。我们还要看学生将来作为我们社群的一员，能为学校带来什么。这就要从学生的课外活动来判断，看学生从事了什么样的活动，扮演了什么样的角色，而且不管学生做的是什么活动，都要能体现他们的领导力、责任心、主动性等特质。

Yes, it happens. Working at highly selective institutions you will see a lot of students with perfect SAT scores. But admissions officers look for more than that. Having high scores is like having your foot in the door, it’s a threshold. It’s something that’s expected. But highly selective colleges are looking for more than that. They are looking at in an application, the whole student, how the student has done academically within their high school, so admissions officers at highly selective colleges look at the transcript, the courses, they like to see that students are challenging themselves within the context of their school's curriculum, and their scores. They all come into play, but they are also looking at students who are interesting, those who have something that they can bring to the school. So admissions officers look at the student's personality through their essay, through what teachers have to say about them. Also through the teacher’s recommendation, they are looking for students who are engaged in class, participate in class, know how to collaborate with other students in order to work together and to work together efficiently and effectively. Admissions officers are also looking for students who can bring something to the campus as a student and as a community member, looking at their extracurricular activities, what they do, the types of things that they do, and whatever they decide to do they like to see the qualities of leadership, commitment, achievement, and initiative.

YG：你肯定遇到过很多学生跟你说他们要用整个暑假的时间补习SAT和托福，你对这些学生有什么建议么？

Ok great. I am sure you have had a lot of students tell you that the whole summer they are going to be studying the SAT or the TOEFL. What do you have to say to those students?

TM：标化考试的准备确实很重要，但是不能占用整个暑假的时间。暑假是探索兴趣的很好时机，不管是学术上的，还是课外活动上的。暑假是展示你对兴趣热爱的最好时机，所以暑假少花一些时间准备标化考试。为了标化成绩花上一整个暑假，就是捡芝麻丢西瓜了，因为标化成绩只是申请材料中的一小部分。

I would say standardized test preparation is important, but it doesn’t need to be the whole summer. I think the summer is a good time to explore other interests, whether it’s an academic interest or extracurricular interest. It’s prime time to really demonstrate whatever it is that you’re passionate about. Leave some time for SAT prep, but don't devote the whole summer to just a small portion of the application process that will be evaluated.

YG：那与刚才相反的情况：你有没有录取过分数比较低的学生呢？他们又是哪里说服你做出录取决定的呢？

On the other hand, have you ever admitted students that have less than stellar SAT scores and if so, why were those students admitted?

TM：这种情况也不少见，我们录取过一些SAT成绩相对低的学生。其实就是因为他们是很有意思很有个性的人，他们是肯定会在学校受欢迎的人。因为他们有独特的经历，他们能给学校带来不一样的东西。他们可能对某个独特的、冷门学科有浓厚的兴趣，也可能是因为他们有某方面过人的成就，吸引了我们。比如在艺术上，在运动上，在社区服务上等等方面。总之，如果学生有独特的特质，能丰富我们的校园，即使他们分数低一点也没关系，也是相当抢手的申请者。

Yes, certainly I have accepted students that have the lower 25% of the average SAT scores, mainly because they are interesting people. They are people who anyone would love to have on their campus because they have done something unique, they bring something that’s unique to the campus whether it’s their passion about a particular area of study, they are different, they belong to a population that is underrepresented at the school, or they have accomplished something quite amazing whether it’s something in the arts, something in athletics, or something in service. If they have qualities that the admissions committee love to have on campus, that will enrich the campus, and their score is kind of on the lower side, that’s ok, they are still quite appealing.

YG：这样的话，学生们应该有很多机会来弥补SAT分数、GPA等等的不足。

Sounds like there are a lot students can do to balance out lower SAT scores and GPAs.

TM：没错。

Yes.

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