<p>I am going to be a high school senior next year, and I am seriously considering Bowdoin. I’ve heard that this school de-emphasizes SAT scores so does this mean they put more weight on GPA? Will it hurt me if i have an average GPA (3.89 weighted) but a high SAT score (2320)?</p>
<p>It depends on your high school. a 3.89 at school A might not equal a 3.89 at school B.</p>
<p>I got in with a 3.86 at a very strong private school and a 1600 (back in the day before that meant 66%).</p>
<p>i got in with a 3.6uw (we didn't weight) and a 1540 (2330 if you add the writing SAT2, for comparison's sake) from a strong public school. i'm sure there were other contributing factors (like the fact that i applied EDII), but i basically had your score and a lower/comparable (? you should list your unweighted score) gpa.</p>
<p>My son will be a freshman in September and he had a 5.4 GPA on a 5.0 scale and he had new SATS 800v, 750m. 720w. He also had taken 5 AP's with scores of 5 & 4. Overall, I think the school looks at how challenging your high school classes are and do in fact care most about the GPA. Send those scores, but maybe you should look to do exceedingly well on some SAT II's and send them in.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply :)</p>