From a 2002 article featuring several university deans of admission commenting on what they like, and don't like, in an applicant:
I may be guilty of exaggerating, but the student I remember [most] quickly admitting a few years back was a young man who told us straight-out that after four years he was still the ‘worst soccer player on the worst soccer team in the state.’ Another who I remember saying to myself was someone who…asked if there was anything else we should know, wrote, ‘As you will have noticed, my SAT scores are low. They are accurate.'"
Fred Hargadon
Former Princeton Dean of Admissions
That Cool Guy says
Thanks for this! Funnily, the last example made me think of a completely new and better topic for my common essay, and it has nothing to do with test scores. And just when i thought i was done. . .