<p>Can high SAT scores override low grades? I have never been motivated in high school, but my SAT scores are quite great. Is that a good or a bad thing?</p>
<p>Your high SAT scores cannot completely override low grades. GPA is an indicator of how hardworking a person is, so colleges don’t like to see that you may be naturally intelligent but lazy.</p>
<p>Argh. </p>
<p>Damn.</p>
<p>My friend got waitlisted and she had a 35 ACT, but weaker (but not awful) grades and absolutely phenomenal ECs. In short, no they cannot compensate.</p>
<p>My childhood dreams have been shattered. Time to jump off a bridge.</p>
<p>I have a 2300 SAT but 3.69 W GPA :(:(:(:(:(</p>
<p>I just hope my exponential upward trend can save me.</p>
<p>I’m a Canadian student. Up here our grades are out of 100. What is GPA and how would mine be calculated?</p>
<p>Divide by 25…</p>
<p>we need to define “high” lol. i think 2300+ or 35+ is high. if your sat score falls in that range, then i think it compensate for lower grades. not like Fs or anything of course</p>
<p>Haha nooo 3.8 does not count as a low unweighted GPA!
I think was probably right around a 3.7 or so, maybe a tad bit higher or lower but certainly not a 3.9.</p>
<p>I have 800/800 in CR and M, and 800 on the math II, physics and chemistry subject tests. I got mostly high 80s and low 90s in high school.</p>
<p>You cannot simply divide a Canadian average by 25 to obtain the corresponding GPA in many cases. This is because in some regions, Ontario included, an 80-100 is an “A” as opposed to only 90-100.</p>
<p>Hmm…what about backwards? High GPA/low scores? For example: 4.0 UW/4.7 W and 30 ACT</p>
<p>The best indicator of success at a school like Cornell is your course rigor and grades. Think about it this way…your SAT was a test you took on one particular day and you scored very high vs four years of highschool hopefully in rigorous classes. If you were admissions which of the two would you consider to hold more value? From what I have seen you need to have a high GPA, high SAT subject tests, high SAT’s, very good scores on AP exams, and excellent EC’s that pull your entire application together to show why you are applying to the school/schools that you are interested in.</p>
<p>I also have a terrible gpa and a decent SAT </p>
<p>But I do have an excellent ec that shows that I have talent and that I’m hard working and successful </p>
<p>Could my sat and ec overide the gpa? X.x</p>
<p>May I ask what you are majoring in? It’s possible you have a shot at Engineering if your math/science grades in high school were excellent and you did well on the math part of the SAT, but had your GPA dragged down by other classes. If you are applying to Arts and Sciences, your chances are low since they will want a well-rounded, significantly above average student. Engineering I think can tolerate some mediocrity as long as you are amazing (and I mean amazing) at math/science.</p>
<p>i’m not sure your talking to me but i hope to major in comp sci 
which i heard works for both schools?</p>
<p>my science grades were excellent… my math not so much but i scored a near perfect score on my math sat and our school is known for its rigorous math courses</p>
<p>my ec explains my mediocre grades… a lot. but making thousands a year as a teenager running a business has to have some weight in the application process right? x.x;</p>
<p>I will major in pure science, either astrophysics or nuclear chemistry.</p>
<p>I think I’m good enough at math/sciences. I will participate at the International Chemistry Olympiad next year.</p>
<p>I’m with you loopyz, I have my own business as well, but I only have a 3.7 GPA. I wrote about it a lot in my essays and talked about it during my interview. I’m hoping that’ll be the part of my application that gets me in. It seems Cornell accepts unique students, so I think that’ll help. You guys can check out my website at <a href=“http://www.munktechnologies.com%5B/url%5D…it’s”>www.munktechnologies.com…it’s</a> still under construction, but it’s pretty far along.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think.</p>
<p>what if you want to major in communcations which is from… CALS?
is it harder than engineering?</p>