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<li><p>You can't go to Kaplans/Princeton Review and take an intensive course to increase your GPA. The proliferation of the test prep industry paradoxically devalues the significance of everybody's test scores. A high score might just mean the student learnt all the right strategies, but is otherwise just an average intellect. </p></li>
<li><p>Adcoms are looking for students who will come to class, read the assignments, turn in good papers, and generally do well in the quizzes and tests that are given. A high GPA is a much better predictor of this type of personality than a high SAT/ACT score.</p></li>
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<p>I believe that the SAT should worth much more since during high school you have a lot of classes that may require you a lot of time and in certain cases you lack in effort since you cannot study for that class because you do not have time. Also you pass trew develpment stages as puberty adolescent and more, and also you lack in study. Also there are personal cases for certains people that cood cloud their mindin the studies.</p>
<p>hey I really do not think think like that, maybe thats like the only uneversity that asks for those types of requirments. Then you could like be a really bad student all the years not do anything and then in your senior year get a high GPA enter the U just because you have a good study and organized habit. Life is not about only that, you need to beat obstacles not by attending but by making a prescence.</p>
<p>I'd say a low GPA hurts more. I won't argue about whether or not the GPA or SAT score should hurt more, but as some people have said here, I have rejections to prove it.</p>
<p>I do agree with one comment above, that they need consistent kids who have proven themselves over a four year period, to work hard, study hard, develop good study habits and maintain strong grades, as much as I always thought it was that elusive perfect SAT score that was the golden ticket, I have come to believe that overall the GPA does in the long run count a bit more.</p>
<p>SAT scores are based on how well you test, or how anxious you were on one particular day. GPA is the quality of your academic work for 4 years of your life. GPA > SAT, any day. That’s not to say that abysmally low SAT scores with a high GPA will guarantee you a spot anywhere, though.</p>
<p>Have any of you looked through the results threads for the Ivies and Ivy equivalents? People are rejected all the time with 2300+ SAT scores, yet many are accepted with a score of around 2000ish. People place too much importance on SAT scores.</p>
<p>GPA is slightly more important than the SAT. (I think)
Well, if I get rejected it’d be probably because of my ECs and class rank. My unweighted GPA is decent though, even though my SAT scores are bad.</p>