<p>Gpa is not helpful since it varies school to school. Test scores don’t tell a school you can handle anything. Interviews, essays and EC tell the school what type of person you are and the better schools I would think consider the holistic approach. The chance threads are a joke. How can you chance and chance back based on what? A few random paragraphs where every school is top in nation and everyone claims to take hardest course load. It’s for insecure candidates. </p>