<p>Ok the story that I am about to tell you is true and not false. Please trust me</p>
<p>I heard a story from my SAT teacher that he once had a student who got into brown with gpa of around 3.4 and sat score 1900 ethnicity asian. I was surprised that she got into brown with the following stat. So I asked her what ec did she do. And it was kinda mediocre club as well. However I read her essay and it explained why she had low gpa and how she learned from the past and mature. It was amazing. </p>
<p>Like she wrote what she learned and how she overcome it. So I started to question to myself whether gpa is truly important and does learning determines your worth?</p>
<p>Of course you’re looking at this extreme outlier.
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<p>So one bizarre situation causes you to question? You’re over generalizing. </p>
<p>You know the answer to your question. GPA is extremely central and if you’re banking on catching the same luck as this person, then you’re straw grasping. I know you have a very good SAT. But w/o a top line GPA will you likely be rejected? Yes</p>
<p>That’s a loaded question. It depends on to whom you choose to disclose your worth. Can you be perfectly content working a menial job (not having to display your educational credentials) and be completely fulfilled? It’s possible. I can go to the donut store right now and find adults who are content to work there for the rest of their lives – and they are meaningful contributors to our society.</p>
<p>But if you’re going to show your worth to others (i.e potential employers, neigbors, gossipy family members, future lovers/partners), then you need to determine what will make you content and what won’t. I sincerely hope that having a diploma from Brown isn’t the apex or a brass ring of your journey. Trust me, been there done that. An Ivy degree is very nice. But certainly won’t generate happiness and life fulfillment per se.</p>
<p>GPA and course rigor go hand-in-hand. For example: two students are from the same high school. One of them has a 4.0 GPA because they took lots of elective basket-weaving type courses and no AP’s, while the second student has a 3.8 GPA with 10 AP’s on their transcript. In this case, the student with the lower GPA (the 3.8) has a better chance of being admitted to a selective college than the student who has a perfect GPA because the 3.8 student has demonstrated course rigor.</p>
<p>GPA is not the single, nor the most important thing on the application. In particular, there is no standard in GPA that you can compare different applicants easily.</p>
<p>The answer to your question is provided by every school in the common data set, section C7. Look for “Very Important” factors. GPA is often listed as one, but I would say Rigor is the most commonly listed attribute. </p>
<p>Also look at C12 for average GPA. Yes, there are always examples of someone who had a GPA much lower that got in, Ignore that. According to the CDS acceptance at brown is 9%, so 9 out of 10 very good applicants were turned away. </p>
<p>To think that every student Brown turns down is “very good” is being way too generous. There are tons of applications from kids to every elite school who have little to no chance.</p>
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