<p>Is it true that colleges weigh the SAT more than a GPA. The reason being because GPAs aren't uniform across schools (some deflate, some inflate) and aren't accurate indicators of course rigor.</p>
<p>For a school that doesn't rank. What is the most important consideration a college has? GPA or SAT?</p>
<p>Well, yes, but only because you’ve worded the question the wrong way.</p>
<p>Grade point average, especially weighted GPA, can vary widely from school to school, but grade point average isn’t really what colleges are looking at. They’re looking at your entire transcript: the classes you took, the level of those classes (standard, honors, AP, basic, whatever…), and the grades you earned. To many–I’d say most–universities and colleges, an applicant’s transcript is the single most important document in the application. More important than SAT or ACT scores. More important than essays. More important than teacher recommendations. Certainly more important than extra-curricular activities.</p>
<p>In addition, you should know that along with your transcript, colleges that you apply to will also receive a document called a school profile. The school profile helps admissions offices evaluate your transcript within the context of your school. It gives information about the distribution of grades that students earn in your school (so colleges can tell whether your school practices grade inflation, grade deflation or neither), about the number of students who take advanced classes such as honors or AP, about the post-graduation plans of recent graduates (how many go to 4-year colleges, to 2-year colleges, to the military or straight to work), about the fraction of your school population that receive free or reduced-price meals, and so on.</p>
<p>In my honest opinion, I think that class rank matters much more than your GPA. GPAs are known to inflate/deflate from school to school. You simply have to take a 6.0 weighted with a grain of salt if you’re trying to compare it to a 4.3 from another school with a different scale. </p>
<p>With class rank, they known that you performed this well under nearly constant conditions with other top students from your school. You ranked X out of X number of people. </p>
<p>I also entirely agree with the poster above me about transcript, though. That transcript also relates pretty directly to class rank, as well.</p>
<p>There are no schools that weight standardized test scores above rigor and grades.</p>
<p>If you are a person with test scores much stronger than your transcript, look for schools that consider scores as very important to the admissions process and any other unique qualities you might have (athletic or musical talent, geographic or cultural diversity, etc.) </p>
<p>If you google “common data set” for schools that interest you, look at section c7 to see how the various factors are weighted in first year admissions decisions.</p>
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Sorry, as worded this is just not true. U Nebraska ranks scores and rank more important than rigor and GPA. <a href=“http://irp.unl.edu/CDS2011-12.pdf[/url]”>http://irp.unl.edu/CDS2011-12.pdf</a> </p>
<p>I agree with Sikorsky’s post.</p>
<p>An illustration of why I try to avoid absolutes on College Confidential.</p>
<p>I mean, why I usually try to avoid them…</p>
<p>Sent from my DROIDX using CC</p>
<p>Thanks y’all. I stand corrected and agree with sikorsky. Bottom line is that how you do in your HS courses and what you take, considered in the context of your particular school, is more important at most schools and of the same importance at some schools as how you do on your standardized tests.</p>
<p>Also you should be aware that even if your school doesn’t rank, colleges usually have a pretty good idea of where you stand. Sometimes, this info is in the profile, e.g., the profile might say the 25/75th gpa’s were 2.70 -3.97 or the range of gpa’s in last year’s graduating class was 2.5-4.2. Or the school newspaper may publish a list of where everyone got in, complete with “stats.” In any event, colleges usually have at least a fairly good idea of where you rank in the class even if your school doesn’t officially rank.</p>
<p>" Or the school newspaper may publish a list of where everyone got in, complete with “stats.”"</p>
<p>Whoa, places do this? That’s kinda personal.</p>
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That also sounds like it would require a lot of pages.
My school has a list online of the schools people are going to and the number of students going to that school - no names or stats or anything.</p>
<p>My school shows the stats of where each student and where they’ve gone. But doesn’t reveal who it is.</p>
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<p>Lehigh favors standardized tests over GPA and rank, but not course rigor.
<a href=“http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/cds/lucds2012.htm[/url]”>http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/cds/lucds2012.htm</a></p>
<p>You really have to look at it on a school by school basis(GPA/Rigor vs. Test), though with “holistic” admissions, it all has a tendency to be fungible. </p>
<p>For example, UF accepts over 90% of its incoming freshmen from Florida. Since they have a good sense on the Florida high schools, it can put a greater focus on GPA/Rigor than Test. But even here, it will take into account that a school may not offer an IB program or many AP/honor courses, giving those kids a break on the GPA(or not, you got to love the holistic process…).</p>
<p>It’s kind of unfair to admit by class rank rather than GPA. A rank 1 at one school isn’t always better than the rank 10 at another.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the University of Miami weighs GPA as compared to Sat?</p>
<p>Cheryl, you can find out for yourself if you look at the University of Miami’s common data set.</p>
<p>Most colleges and universities publish one. They all have the same format. (That’s what’s “common” about them.) Section C of the common data set gives information about the previous year’s applicants for freshman admission. It tells things like the high school GPAs of current freshmen, and the distribution of their SAT scores. Subsection 7 of section C gives information about criteria for admission. It will tell you what things the U of Miami considers, what it considers “important” or “very important,” and what it does not consider.</p>
<p>To find it, you can just Google “University of Miami common data set.”</p>