<p>"Bad test day? The SAT and ACT are offered myriad times between your junior and senior years. Is this serious?</p>
<p>We have no idea how ‘killer’ your GPA is. It would really depend on the school and colleges will know where you rank. I’d have to assume your school is not a highly competitive one or the necessary scores would have been made clear to you freshmen year.</p>
<p>With no hook or stand out ECs, even a 36 would make Yale tough."</p>
<p>I was set on going to a JC until a few months ago, so I had only one shot at each test for the UC’s. It’s a small private school and the majority of them get into Ivy Leagues, prestigious private schools, and the good UC’s.</p>
<p>How important are test scores to Ivy’s and the good UC’s compared to GPA? Not many have a 4.0 UW 5.0 W in any year of school, so I can’t imagine why something like a bad test would completely tank an application. I understand subjects are being eliminated from the UC’s. For 2010 admissions, how much importance does UCLA, my dream school, place on subject scores?</p>