The Luck Factor

<p>As I was talking to my roommate about a test Im studying for this Oct, the subject of SAT scores came into the conversation. I told him that I hated writing and wondered what his writing score was. Then he puled up his stats from tritonlink and showed me his SAT scores. He scored in the low 1500's. I was shocked and asked him what was his GPA. He told me it was a 3.2. Then I asked him was the amazing thing that he did to get into UCSD. He told me nothing. He did 10 hours of community service and one year of baseball. I was like whoa. He was laughing while telling me that he himself doesn't understand how he got in. He didn't pass the analytical writing test so his essay couldnt have been extremely brilliant.</p>

<p>It makes me sad and confused how my friends who scored in the 1800's maintained a 4.1 and did crazy community service got rejected.</p>

<p>Yeah, there will always be those ppl you'll meet in college where you'll wonder "How the ***K did they get in?!?"</p>

<p>Usually those are the ppl who make up the 18% of ppl in UC's that dont graduate... kind of a mean reality check but most of the time pretty true.</p>

<p>admissions were screwy. my best friends got rejected with ~4.5 GPAs and ~2000 SATs while I know some people that got in with 3.5 GPA and 1800 SAT</p>

<p>i know two people who each have gotten sub-1500 on the SATs and less than a 3.5 gpa. they're pretty hard-working</p>

<p>are they in-state residents???</p>

<p>one of my friends had 4.1gpa, 2280 sat, 780 and 720 SAT2's- instate and got rejected from everywhere except santa barbara</p>

<p>arctic: well if all the colleges except santa barbara agreed that your friend was not admission material, theres gotta be some reason for that consensus.</p>

<p>eric_123456: i dont know, but if admissions officers work on cases on a individual basis, maybe some of them have lower standards. i guess your friend got lucky and got one of the ones who had lower standards.</p>