<p>OP, tests scores have less correlation to success in college than do high school grades. It doesn’t really matter how smart you are if you don’t/won’t/can’t do the work. It doesn’t matter if you personally think the work is busy work, or boring, or non relevant, or not interesting. Colleges and universities want to admit students who will succeed and graduate, and proof of previous ability to manage a heavy work load is highly relevant. The department rep. of a very highly respected undergraduate program in engineering said straight out (in a group setting with potential undergraduates and parents) that, in that particular department, SAT/ACT scores are somewhat irrelevant. The faculty of that department has found that high school grades, and the difficulty of the classes taken in high school, is much more predictive of success in college than are any test scores.</p>
<p>Read, and re-read Hunt’s advice. It is excellent.</p>