<p>So you meant to say inerviews are more important than essays.</p>
<p>I would say they check out the grades to see if they would "survive" & then it would be whether or not you are a fit... so here I go.</p>
<ol>
<li>Grades- how hard you work everyday</li>
<li>SSATs- compare your grades with everyone else's scores</li>
<li>Teacher recs- see how you interact in class/ what your grades mean</li>
<li>Interview- see if the school likes you/ personality/ character</li>
<li>Essays- what you're really like, how you write, anything else you didn't tell them during the interview</li>
<li>ECs- see what you can offer them</li>
</ol>
<p>ECs I put last because, well, they have to like you and see if you can survive before they think about what you could offer them.</p>
<ul>
<li>there are several other threads about this as well.
But, I think the order differs with every situation and school.</li>
</ul>
<p>Well I think </p>
<ol>
<li>Essays- understand what kind of person you are, how you write...</li>
<li>Teacher Recs- understand even more of what you're like (as a student)</li>
<li>EC's- see if you have anything special to offer the school</li>
<li>Interview- see what kind of personality/character you're like</li>
<li>SSAT/Grades- compare how hard you work as a student, how you compare with the rest of your age... </li>
</ol>
<p>I put SSAT's and grades down really low because it's really just a number... aren't they more interested in how well you write and what kind of learner you are more? (but then again, it's still rather important because schools like A/E wouldn't accept someone with straight D's and a 55 percentile)</p>
<p>Haha, I agree with most of what glitters said :) Except for the grades part, I'd put that up there in between ECs and Teacher Recs, I guess.</p>
<p>Schools are all looking for the next students who will creatively execute their talent into producing things like the facebook.com song XDXD Hotchkiss has awesome students LOL</p>