>사실 한국에서 중위권 대학 갈 실력이면 공부로는 하버드갈 실력은 됩니다.
Sure, many students can get the perfect or a close to perfect SAT/ACT score and a good GPA. But there are too many such applicants already. You can assume that almost all top school applicants are like that. “공부로는 ” is meaningless.