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College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
how does it look to colleges in this situation? for instance lets say someone gets a 2250+ and has a 3.3gpa, or at the other end has a 4.0 and a 2000. how do colleges look at these situations? is it better to have one than the other?
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
Case 1: they know you are lazy-ish.
Case 2: they know you are a hardworker and probably not as smart as case 1. I think most undergrads will prefer case 2. However they also tend to use index scores which vary depending upon school. |
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
Case 1: It depends on where you went to high school. A 3.3 means many different things depending on your school. They know you're smart enough, and they'll want to know how hard it was to get a 3.3 at your school.
Case 2: Again, it depends. A 2000 certainly does not mean you're dumb, and if you got a 4.0 at a decent school, you're going to be fine. Otoh, if you got a 4.0 at some retard school, it doesn't do you much good. |
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
Depends on your high school, also depends on how your GPA got to where it was. For example here I'd rather be the 2nd person if my GPA had been increasing since sophomore year, I'd hate to be the 1st guy if my GPA was a 4.0 freshman year.
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
bumping this cause i got my SAT scores, it looks like i fit case A perfectly, 800 math, 760 writing, 690 reading for 2250 and my gpa looks like it will shape up to between 3.35-3.4. my highschool is a small private school where i am definitely taking the harder classes i can in everything except english. this quarter i have 5 A's and 1 B unweighted so hopefully i can carry that to the semester.
for reference here is the list of school im applying to in no particular order, and all schools except chicago im applying as EE major 1. Stanford 2. Berkeley 3. Harvey Mudd 4. UCSD 5. UCLA 6. UC davis 7. UCSB 8. u Chicago 9. Lafayette 10. Carnegie-Mellon 11. USC 12. Cal Poly SLO |
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
EE will eat you alive at every one of those schools.
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Re: College App Question: SAT scores vs. GPA
As someone who helps to make these decisions, a 3.35-3.4 GPA doesn't look impressive even if you are from a prep school unless it's a really top-notch place. Otoh, it doesn't look like you're a retard either, especially with those SAT scores. If i were looking at a cold application like this, i'd have to guess you were somewhat lazy. Someone who get those SAT scores should get a 3.7+ GPA.
To be sure, this is not meant as an insult. I'm just telling you how we make these decisions. It's an imperfect system, but unfortunately, it's the reality that you need to deal with. Btw, why not include Illinois on your list? Best value for the buck in almost all engineering depts. |
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