<p>GPA is the single most important factor for college admissions. Period. Exam scores yield much less information about you as a student and have almost no predictive value for any of the measures of success in college. Be assured that every college admissions officer in the country knows this.</p>
<p>But I am dead serious about discussing the discrepancy between your classroom grades and your exam scores with your guidance counselor. Scores that are significantly higher than predicted based on classroom grades are practically a diagnosis for dyslexia-type processing difficulties. There is nothing “wrong” with being dyslexic. It just means that some typed of reading and writing may take you longer than the average student. Clearly you are very smart and hardworking or you would not be succeeding at your high school.</p>