<p>Yeah, I think so.</p>
<p>SAT's may take three hours, but I still think its a better overview of analytical ability than high school grades. </p>
<p>Good point about the whole 3 years vs 3 hours thing though...</p>
<p>It might possibly be a better indicator of analytical ability, but high school courses are more representative of how well you'll do in a college course. You probably have to work hard in at least some, and you'll have teachers you don't like and who don't like you. You have to deal with being sick and missing class and disciplinary stuff, and you write papers and pull all-nighters for high school. All of that goes into your transcript. It's how hard you can work and how well you can deal with adversity for years, and granted, the transcript is only one smidgeon of what you've spent high school doing, but you'll have diversions in college too, and still grad schools and employers want to see the transcript, because that's where how well you can do really should come out.</p>
<p>nothing better than looking at everything, the applicant as a whole.</p>
<p>"it's basically just a memorial to everything the Bush family has done while in office."</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if that alone got you a rejection (unless you talked about yourself in it).</p>
<p>My interviewer seemed very conservative, despite being a teacher. Maybe it was the religious thing. But Rhode Island as a whole has a reputation for swinging to that side of the political spectrum.</p>
<p>the biggest irony here is that GPA is what counts in college, not a standardized test score</p>
<p>"I think your activities essay, if you wrote it in essay form, will be a clincher."
Why do you think this, Thethoughtprocess???</p>
<p>well I think it sets you apart besides scores, obviously. But unlike your personal statement, your activity essay talks about things you've actually done. I think writing about what you've achieved and why you are interested in the things you do are important. Everything is important, but if you have pretty good scores plus cool activities it will look really good.</p>
<p>I sorta just listed my activites since that took like 3 pages</p>
<p>Same here... I actually did it kinda strangely: I did one paragraph for each of my most meaningful activities (described in the general categories of ECs that were outlined in the application). I went a little more in depth, but left out other ECs (I also included a transcript, though, so they could see the other ECs that I do). :)</p>
<p>Do they look at your ECs if they're listed on your transcript? I only mentioned 4 of my ECs in the activites essay, and kicked myself afterward because I left out a whole lot. Oh well, doesn't matter.</p>
<p>oh come on, everybody with good grades wants the grades to count and *****es that the sat's mean nothing, everybody with high scores want the tests to count and complain that grades reflect nothing.
why do you think colleges take BOTH into account? because they both reflect SOMETHING, and although sats may be biased and gpas may not reflect a full story or whatever, you can hardly say either one is entirely invaluable. </p>
<p>on that note, ecs should count the most!!
kidding.</p>
<p>^^^^good point.</p>
<p>They have Ec's on transcripts?</p>
<p>my school doesn't</p>