<p>Riggo: you wrote that you think your intellectual abilities are much better than your stats reveal.</p>
<p>I don’t understand that statement or perspective. How are (academic) intellectual abilities supposed to be revealed if not in GPA and SATs? College is not about “life abilities”, or the many other kinds of intelligence utilized in navigating successfullythough life – Emotional Intelligence. Spacial intelligence. Social intelligence. Then of course character qualities like persistence, honesty, and even personality traits like effervescence, energy, etc.</p>
<p>The top 50 or so colleges and universities are looking for top 5% <em>academic</em> achievement, top 5% <em>academic</em> intelligence, and then also likeablility, energy, character, etc… but it must start with <em>academic</em> achievement and intelligence.</p>
<p>I’ll bet more than half the millionaires in this country are not even in the top 10% of <em>academic</em> achievement or intelligence.</p>