<p>At my school, SAT/PSAT and GPA are relatively related, with a few people who surprisingly do poorly on the SAT/PSAT simply because they didn’t study enough.</p>
<p>I’m 1/568 with a 4.84W. I got a 2320. Many other valedictorians have gotten higher than me (2x2390, 1x2380, 1x2360, 1x2350, etc.)</p>
<p>I guess intelligence was the wrong word; I think of intelligence holistically. As in not I can solve any math problem put in front of me but being able to speak well and have a wide range of skills. There are many at my school who get straight A’s and have high SAT score but quite honestly don’t know much of anything. They couldn’t tell you the president of Iran, or the speaker of the house, or anything pertaining to the real world/what actually matter. Oh academia…</p>
<p>/rant out</p>
<p>Hmm, I don’t consider that intelligence. I consider that having the knowledge of many facts, and if you are intelligent, you have a greater capability to know/memorize facts. I think intelligence is the ability to solve a problem (not just math) or capability to learn new things. This isn’t a complete definition, but a good part of it.</p>
<p>My school’s average is a little over 1900, and I’m in the top 5% (probably more, but haven’t been released yet).
I got to a massively competitive school though - getting straight As is basically impossible. I’m always stunned to see so many 4.0 UW on CC, and I sort of have to assume that some schools practice grade inflation/my school practices severe grade deflation.
UW, the highest people get is probably over a 3.8 (I don’t want to say what mine is), and about 15% of every graduating class ends up going to an Ivy or a top 10 LAC… just to give you an idea of how widely school policies changes.
So even if unweighted GPAs were standardized, I don’t know if all teachers would be able to grade similarly. And imagine students who come from states or countries with poor educational facilities - that would basically prohibit them from competing with students who have access to more ressources (though I suppose that’s already the case today).</p>