<p>I agree with coureur. You can moan and gripe all you want about the numbers games admissions constantly plays, but you have to realize that these are the only ways an adcom can predict with college success with any amount of certainty. Obviously scores fall within a range, GPA and rank would vary by school, and adcoms know that. Provided that schools don't have any absolute cutoffs (ex. Harvard says "We will under no circumstances admit anyone with less than a 2000 on their SATs") the current system is as "fair" as one could imagine.</p>