Safety Schools for High Level Student

[ucbalumnus]

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@whenhen

I’ve yet to see a school’s common data set which indicates that extracurriculars are more important than grades for admissions.

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<p>Lehigh is rather exceptional in giving relatively low regard for GPA and class rank:
<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=794”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=794&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Regarding “top schools”, extracurriculars’ importance may seem magnified when comparing among a pool of applicants with 4.0 or near-4.0 GPAs and top-end test scores (so that the GPAs and test scores are basically indistinguishable) – but applicants with significantly lower GPAs and/or test scores tend to be out of the running, no matter how good their extracurriculars are.</p>