<p>Hey.</p>
<p>Just as colleges prefer rising GPA rather than fluctuating or decreasing GPAs,</p>
<p>Do colleges care about trends in SAT1 Scores?</p>
<p>doubt it, as it tests only four hours of your life, not an entire semester</p>
<p>This is indirectly related, but is it true that a high SAT score can compensate for a low GPA, and vice versa? What is the relationship between the two figures, if any?</p>
<p>colleges like to see an upward trend in GPA.</p>
<p>at top schools a high SAT can’t compensate for a low GPA or vice versa.</p>
<p>you need the whole package</p>
<p>can a high SAT compensate for a low GPA?
an adcom said that adcoms tend to make excuses for kids with High SAT scores like “oh, he just isnt trying but he is a smart kid.” </p>
<p>I do not believe it is vice versa because than the book said that the other way around suggests 2 things: wildly crazy grade inflation (bad) or a dull and “diligent” worker that is not the level of brightness Ivies look for.</p>
<p>Source: A for Admission, What it really Takes, How to get into Elite College</p>
<p>I mean lets say you took SAT 3 times, and got 1400, 1700, 2000.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t colleges like that the most instead of getting like 2000, 1900, 1800 or 1700, 1700,1700</p>
<p>colleges really don’t overanalyze your scores like that.</p>
<p>in the first scenario you have a 2000; second scenario you have a 2000; third scenario you have a 1700.</p>
<p>2000>1700</p>
<p>I would imagine that improvements in SAT scores are more often the result of greater familiarity with the test and more SAT-specific preparation rather than the result of increased intelligence.</p>
<p>The other thing is that Score Choice now lets you send only your best score, and I think a lot of kids will choose to do that (I know I am…) so that way, colleges never even see your lower scores.</p>