<p>...and also the IB diploma.</p>
<p>Do you know of any high quality (ie. greater than UMD) colleges with strong engineering and/or physics programs that care more about SAT scores than, um mediocre GPAs?</p>
<p>Or focus primarily on 10th, 11th and 12th grade marks (such as the UCs)?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Well thats a a tricky question.</p>
<p>Schools that weigh SAT/ACT/Scores over GPA?
NONE, 99.999 percent of schools will take high gpa over scores any day and almost never the other way around. that being said, if you gpa is like 3.6+ or something reasonably ok but on the lower scale of a colleges range but ur scores are like perfect and the gpa is because of grade deflation and u have a reasonably high rank, u could be at a NOT BAD scenario.</p>
<p>Schools that look at 10,11,12 only?
I believe stanford only looks mostly at 10,11, and 12 and is VERY strong in engineering and great at physics. but then again stanford is hard af to get into (hardest in the country smh)</p>
<p>^Nice numbers and facts you pulled out of nowhere L.</p>
<p>Low test score in conjunction with high grades could imply major grade inflation.
Colleges usually always take GPA into context. School, transfers, rigor, &c all apply to most admissions processes. </p>
<p>Regardless, most competitive admissions (ie the type OP is interested in) approach applications holistically. They look at the bigger picture. They don’t put GPA and SAT into a machine that weighs GPA higher. </p>
<p>Matrixsurgeon, even for formulaic admissions SAT/ACT can weigh more than GPA.</p>
<p>In the Iowa state admissions (although not very competitive), an ACT score of 30 would weigh the same as a B- average GPA.</p>
<p>Also, upward curves partially alleviate the negative aspects of a mediocre GPA. I assume you have an upward curve.</p>
<p>UC’s, CS’s, Stanford, McGill, Carnegie Melon (I believe).</p>
<p>There are others if you go searching.</p>