<p>What are the biggest factors for admission at villanova? do they look really closely at SATS, GPA, Rank??? What are the most important, important, and least important factors?</p>
<p>I'm guessing. I would think that class rank and GPA ,together or individually, are the most important; SAT's would be next in importance; recommendations, third; and other information (extracurriculars, unusual skills, AP courses, study abroad, or state of origin) would be fourth. Nobody at a university in Oregon will be impressed with an applicant from Washington or California, but someone from any of those states is likely to get a second look at an admissions office in Pennsylvania or New Jersey (and vice versa). Everything else being hypothetically equal, the student from a distant state has an advantage. And, at most private colleges, a male has an advantage over a female.</p>
<p>These factors are mostly considered in combination, not isolation, unless some key factor is really very low. Wretched SATs or terrible grades are probably enough, by themselves, to be a kiss of death, no matter how good everything else looks. But excellent grades and marginal SATs might make it (combined with good recommendations and extracurriculars) and excellent SATs might make up for marginal grades. At most selective schools, excellent SATs will not make up for wretched grades.</p>
<p>Finally, grades (or SATs) considered marginal at University A, might be considered perfectly acceptable at University B, and terrible at University C.</p>