<p>I really do. I bust my butt all high school long to get whooped by the kid who is sleeping every day in class. Yeah, I got accepted to a really competitve college but still- I'm 6th in my class he has to be close to 1,000th and HE made a 1580?! I wanna kill myself. Not that his 2.3 w GPA would help anyway. Anyone feel my pain?</p>
<p>That's life. I'm sorry. :(</p>
<p>wait whats the problem here? Are you jealous he's smart but lazy or something?</p>
<p>Why? Colleges all say that GPA counts more than SAT.</p>
<p>I wonder how he will do when looking at colleges.</p>
<p>GPA does not count more than the SAT. That's a load of bull. My ACT score prevented me from getting into my number 1 school, but my GPA was stellar.</p>
<p>lol. i'm completely opposite. I hate when kids have better grades than me but lower sat scores.</p>
<p>Same, agree with nicole. GRR!</p>
<p>im with nicole</p>
<p>if you have to work for your grades you dont deserve them (im just kidding, of course, but theres something behind that... im just not sure what)</p>
<p>I kinda feel sorry for the kid. He's probably very intelligent but for some reason lacks motivation. That might be due to ordinary laziness, but it could also point to a more serious problem.</p>
<p>I hate the people who get higher grades AND higher SAT scores than me!</p>
<p>...just kidding.</p>
<p>I am being beat in class rank by several people with significantly lower SATs than me and I hate that even more. That kid that sleeps probably does so because the classes are boring, but he has the intelligence so he could obviosly succeed if he worked hard.</p>
<p>^^^ I completely agree. GPA is mostly based on how well the teacher likes you anyway.</p>
<p>"GPA is mostly based on how well the teacher likes you anyway."
That is the crux of the problem, it is so subjective. My schools likely valedictorian gets his grades because he is somewhat of a suck up, not because he is smart. The differences between the top kids GPAs is often 0.01, obviosly that cannot adequately be explained by the completely different grading methods of several teachers.</p>
<p>I really hope that 1580 is on the old SAT. If it's on the new SAT then that score sucks.</p>
<p>My grades are horrible this year because half my classes are centered around busy work. I don't do busy work. It got me near straight As after 3 years. Now I'm pulling a 3.0 for the quarter (almost pulled bellow a 3.0 last semester) because I dont do bs work. I get As on tests. I don't spend hours answering stupid questions and doing boring activities because the teachers are too lazy to teach. </p>
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I really do. I bust my butt all high school long to get whooped by the kid who is sleeping every day in class.
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Last year my entire AP Chemistry class was fast asleep except for a few kids who did their homework. The only people wide awake and taking notes were the stupidest, ditsiest girls who had to work hours to pass tests while the rest of us breezed by. And don't think that the material was easy either because the teacher prepared us all to get 4s and 5s on the AP test.</p>
<p>If I worked in admissions at one of these colleges, I would want someone who works hard all the time. I would not want someone who thinks he is too good or maybe too smart to pay attention. I believe that shows no motivation and disrespect for the teacher. I would not care if his SAT score was a perfect score, if his grades were average then I know he is just lazy. There are plenty of kids with good grades and good SAT's. There is a kid at my daughter's school who scored a 2200 on the SAT with just average grades and was deferred. Yet, there was another boy at the school who had a 1570 on the SAT and a great GPA but was accepted. This is a school that is hard to get accepted to.</p>
<p>A girl 10 people ahead of me in rank got an 1180 total on her SAT and I got a 2170....That ****es me off.</p>
<p>well..............u have to agree too that some people r just gifted w/ the test taking ability and as someone says this is how life is! (I'm angry too! I've seen it happening so many times!)</p>
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If I worked in admissions at one of these colleges, I would want someone who works hard all the time. I would not want someone who thinks he is too good or maybe too smart to pay attention.
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<p>why not? there's always the very real chance that he is too smart to pay attention. the point of school is to learn the material -- some people need the repetitive work, some honestly don't. working hard does not show intelligence or comprehension; it shows working hard. some people don't need to work hard to ace tests because they already understand the material.</p>