<p>If a GPA is decent and not stellar, how much can a great, 75% smashing SAT score actually do for a person? (In top 40 colleges)</p>
<p>There's another thread about this, in this forum, on the 1st page...</p>
<p>Honestly from my own experiences...not much.</p>
<p>So if I have, like 3.6 (10th/11th core), 3.7 (9-11th core), or 3.8 (9-11 all) then SAT won't help me all that much? Maybe I should shoot a bit lower than top 40.</p>
<p>3.8 is OK. Don't worry. 94% of admitted applicants to Stanford last year had a GPA above 3.76. 3.8 is above 3.76. (Conversely, remember that only 5% of accepted applicants had a GPA below 3.76)</p>
<p>When Stanford calcs my GPA it's 3.6.</p>
<p>See, it's only 3.8 when certain schools calculate every single one of my classes froma ll grades.
3.73 if it's core classes of 9-11.
Core classes of 10-11 are 3.6, and the problem is I can't figure out which schools do what.</p>
<p>Rising trend and good ECs would reeally help in that case. A high SAT is almost always good though, at least its a plus. It's a matter of overcoming the slacker label by providing something a college wants.</p>
<p>I don't have a rising trend until the final semester of junior year, between 3rd and 5th semester it's just a slight downwards trend of one more B (and then two more) for three semesters.</p>