What is important?

Applying to College
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<p>There are a lot of people asking what is important? Is it the GPA or SAT? Or perhaps Essays and ECs? </p>

<p>Well I want to create a poll to see what people think really is important. </p>

<p>So rate each category with 5 being the most important and 1 being useless, and add it to the previous number</p>

<p>So say person A says:
ECs: 5
SAT: 1
GPA: 5</p>

<p>and person B thinks ECs and GPA are 1 and SATs are 5, he would put
ECs: 6
SAT: 6
GPA: 6</p>

<p>Okay, so I'll start, I probably can't think of all the categories that might affect admissions, so bare with me. Also, a comment on why you believe what you believe would also be good.</p>

<p>ECs: 3
Essay: 3
SAT: 3
GPA: 5
Class rank: 5
Awards: 3
Interview: 1-2
URM: 2-3
Income: 2
Where you live: 2</p>

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<p>Class rank: 10
GPA: 9
ECs: 7
Essay: 6-7
SAT: 7-8
Awards: 6
Interview:2-3
URM: 5-6
Income: 4
Where you live: 3</p>

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<p>What poll answerers think is irrelevant. You can go to a schools Common Data Set and see what importance they put on those areas.</p>

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<p>Ofcourse this isn’t very scientific, but I just wanted to see what everyone here thinks is important, and what they try to improve on. Also, schools are very vague about what they want.</p>

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<p>Iin my experience class rank/GPa most important. URM very important but must compete witht he other URMs. SAt important. in my experience interview minor</p>

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<p>Fit: 1,000.</p>

<p>I agree with Erin’s Dad… non sequitur. What’s important depnds entirely on the target college. Harvey Mudd considers interviews to be very important; Caltech doesn’t even offer them. A generic list of what people on CC (many if not most of whom are entering the process for the first time) think is important… would be useless.
Make the college list, then check the CDS for each college. Refine the college list accordingly, if necessary. You want colleges to treat you as an individual, right? Return the favor.</p>