<p>contrary to collegeconfidential belief, scores and grades only matter to a point. ECs, essays, and interviews matter a lot to separate yourself from the thousands of applicants out there, not just test scores and grades (which past a certain threshold don’t matter). It’s laughable when high schoolers say such and such school is a match based on grades and test scores when they don’t know anything.</p>
<p>I do interviewing for a selective company - I reject students who look good on paper but may appear to be superstudy robots in real life all the time.</p>
<p>We can’t see her undoctored essays or interview responses, but the girl’s writing in that article is atrocious to be frank. i’m frankly not that surprised.</p>