<p>To all you parents out there:</p>
<p>“To me, SAT answers the question, “How smart are you?”
GPA answers the question, “How hard do you work?”
A bad answer to either question can doom your application.”</p>
<p>That is right on. My story as follows, see the correlation-</p>
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<li>Public HS GPA 2.3</li>
<li>Graduate HS 175/220</li>
<li>Join Army</li>
<li>Iraq</li>
<li>Leave Army Ace SAT’s 2160 SAT 2’s 2220</li>
<li>Realize no school wants a 2.3 GPA with high SAT’s </li>
<li>Realize value of education</li>
<li>Do very well in Junior College</li>
<li>Accepted into Ivy League</li>
<li>Regain reasonable perspective on life and college is paid for by son/daughter.</li>
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