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<p>How is a 4.0 and a 2.0 the difference between a “lazy” student and a hard-working student? You do not receive a 75 in a class as a result of laziness, you receive that when you fail to understand what is taught. A lazy student might receive an 85 rather than a 90. If you are going to argue that a “C” is average outside of these boards, then you might as well acknowledge the actual 2009 National Mean Scores for the SAT straight from College Board.</p>
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<p>As you can see, the average national SAT score is closer to 1500, not 2000. Your juxtaposition of two potential applicants, one with a 4.0 GPA/2000 SAT and one with a 2.0 GPA/2350 SAT will show nothing. The discrepancies in GPA are of much larger magnitude than the discrepancies in the SAT scores.</p>
<p>In regards to OP’s stats, my initial presumptions would be that either her school inflates grades heavily, and thus does not accurately reflect her intelligence, or that she has supplanted her lack of intelligence with extreme diligence and the SATs merely show she did not have strong reasoning/critical thinking skills to begin with.</p>