<p>If I get a 2300 on my SAT, yet have average (mostly Bs) grades and few extracurriculars, what are my chances of getting accepted to a good school (ex. Duke, Emory)?
How important are SAT scores as opposed to grades/extracurriculars?</p>
<p>With a GPA near 3, I would think that it would be rather difficult to get into Duke or Emory or something of the similar caliber, however it isn’t impossible. </p>
<p>Based on my understanding of college, SAT comes secondary to GPA and Extracurriculars come after SAT.</p>
<p>SAT is not going to get you into a school, really. Your score basically functions as ONE part of the huge application that should be past a certain point in order to avoid having ad com’s question your GPA or academic ability</p>
<p>Depends on how hard your classes are. Usually, testing is used to discredit high GPAs - for example, if you have a 4.6/4 gpa and a 1650 SAT, it is much more likely that you go to an easy school than you are a genius.</p>
<p>Exactly! So, ad coms probably won’t see a HUGE difference between, let’s say, person A (with a 4.0 and 33 ACT) and person B (with a 4.0 and 34 ACT).
I don’t want to call it a score cutoff, because it isn’t, but in a way is… more of like a threshold that HELPS A LOT but isn’t necessary?
Does that help?</p>
<p>A high SAT score can somewhat guarentee admission in a good college for non US residents.</p>
<p>GPA itself has little meaning. The adcom would also look at your school profile and course rigor at the same time. However, when the GPA is too far off or the school profile and course rigor are not on your side, it does not help much even if you get 2300 in SAT. The adcom may perceive you as a highly prep test taker that do not perform well at school.</p>
<p>what about say a 3.5 GPA with IB courses and a 2300 SAT score? </p>
<p>meow,
How about you put the specifics.
Not what if i got this as a gpa…
and what if I got this as an SAT score…</p>
<p>next would be, what if I hit the lotto.</p>
<p>3.5 is too low, I’d say, for those schools…</p>
<p>How do you convert IB score into GPA?</p>
<p>@KnightOne
Most IB students have a GPA out of 4.0. Most IB students do not know their IB score until after they graduate from high school.</p>
<p>@meowymeowy
I have a 2300 SAT and I am also in IB (3 HLs and 3 SLs). My unweighted GPA is 3.66. I would probably crush your hopes if I were to tell you what schools rejected/waitlisted me.
If you have CAS, your extracurriculars should not be too bad.</p>
<p>I agree with @billcscho. </p>
<p>@JoshWilson15 That is no where close to being true. The SAT tests time management, critical thinking, and aptitude. It isn’t used to show the rigor of your courses. That’s what your high school profile is for. At my Ds school, there are kids who have 2.7 GPAs with 2400 on the SAT and kids who have 4.0s with 1650 on the exam. The SAT is the scholastic APTITUDE exam. All it tests is how well you can take the SAT. </p>
<p>If the SAT was meant to verify how competitive a school is, it wouldn’t be testing 8th grade material. It bothers me when people who don’t know about the SAT talk as if they do. </p>
<p>Annie,
Totally incorrect. But you can believe whatever you want to believe in.</p>
<p>OP, @TomsRiverParent has is notoriously wrong on this forum. Check out this article from US News <a href=“http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2009/09/04/sats-do-not-take-the-full-measure-of-a-high-school-student”>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2009/09/04/sats-do-not-take-the-full-measure-of-a-high-school-student</a></p>
<p>thanks everyone! </p>
<p>Like I said, you can believe whatever you want to believe.</p>
<p>Wake Forest is test optional. Article written by wake forest prof. The article is nothing more than a marketing ploy to get people to apply to WF and pay full freight.
Every college is different, but the SAT or ACT provides a normalization to compare students from different HS and different states. GPA and rigor tell part of the story but the problem is grade inflation at HS.
If I had to guess on how most colleges weight, I would say:
40% SAT/ACT
40% GPA plus rigor
20% other </p>
<p>@anniebeats I agree that it’s a measure of critical thinking and aptitude - thus, if you’re a bad critical thinker (you have a low sat score) and have a 4.0, it’s probably because your classes were full of easy material.</p>