Which univ./colleges prefer academic excellence to extra curriculars?
<p>its not a matter of "prefer"- its a combination, a college doesn't want a campus full of bookworms who don't do anything, or a campus full of kids who can't do well academically.</p>
<p>They can have a whole lot of applicants with 4.0+ and great SATs, but if that is all they have, they would rather take a 3.8 kid who does drama and the newspaper, or music</p>
<p>Or are you asking which schools don't really look at EC's at all and just want to base admissions on #s...</p>
<p>i agree... it's not a question of which, they want BOTH</p>
<p>All of the elite schools in America are going to factor in both. Typically, it's international universities that heavily favor GPA, test scores, etc. over EC's.</p>
<p>To the answer the OP,</p>
<p>Once you drop from less selective schools, there will be fewer and fewer "top applicants." Here, if you have exhibited "academic excellence"- I suppose you mean in terms of grades and standardized test scores- you will fare well in their admissions process even with relatively few EC's. Now, it's all a matter of superlatives. "Excellence" can mean a lot of different things to different people, and to certain colleges it means certain things. Since I'm familiar with California schools, pure "excellence" in academics for USC is good grades and 1550, whereas the standards for a UC Riverside can be A+ average weighted grade with a 1350 (these are assuming they'll be accepted almost entirely on the basis of their statistics). For the better schools around the nation, you simply cannot have one without the pther.</p>
<p>TTG</p>