<p>Do ivies weight grades more heavily then ECs? Like someone with a perfect 4.0GPA and a couple ECs, but nothing impressive or a super-ECer with every varsity sport and club and leadership position with a 3.2GPA? Or any other situation like that. Thanks.</p>
<p>It depends on both, but HYPSM are all very reluctant to accept anything less than 3.5-3.6. And doing every varsity sport isn’t exactly great EC-wise. It shows great athletic talent, but it doesn’t show that you’ve really found your place/invested your time in any one thing in particular. </p>
<p>As I understand it, they check to see how good you are academically, then they see how you stand out.</p>
<p>Grades definitely weight more than ECs. ECs are what distinguish two equally qualified applicants, grades are what determines if you’re qualified in the first place.</p>
<p>I don’t see a 4.0 with mediocre activities OR a 3.2 with lots of ECs getting in unless the ECs are beyond exceptional and make the applicant nationally/internationally preeminent in something.</p>
<p>How about you need both?</p>
<p>Consider the huge pool of applicants.</p>
<p>Yale finds plenty of people with stellar academics and stellar ECs. In fact, there are enough people out there like that to get into all of the top schools.</p>
<p>Of course, if you are truly talented in one thing, whether it be academics or a sport or a music, you don’t need both.</p>