<p>Student A for sure.</p>
<p>Student B, obviously goes to an easy school.</p>
<p>Obviously B. SAT’s are not a measure of intelligence, and his GPA offsets that. Service to community, dedication, all highly not-quantitative traits.</p>
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Says the person whose intelligence most likely falls below that of student B. Wowzers, I really hope adcoms are not as imbecilic in their inferences.</p>
<p>At non-flagship state schools, student B is looking pretty good. Student A has the much better shot at the more selective array of schools, however. Perhaps he went to TJ/Stuy and so it was really hard for him to land a superb GPA. Perhaps he was mired by unusual circumstances which didn’t inhibit his intelligence but obviously affected his ability to conduct schoolwork. To assume from these numbers alone that he’s lazy without some context is lazy logic in itself.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that for the schools that truly care about essays/recs, neither student likely stands a chance.</p>
<p>i think i Applicant A his GPA shows that he is real lazy of has gone to a hard school</p>
<p>defiently letter b very good stats and seems more personable</p>
<p>This is a ridiculous question. It all depends on the college to which the imaginary applicants are applying. In some cases, applicant A would be preferable. In some cases, applicant B would be preferable.</p>
<p>^Actually, this is a bullcrap question.</p>
<p>Those who are more like applicant A in real life, will defend A. Those who are more like B, will defend B.</p>
<p>In the end, there are more lazy people than hard-working people, so applicant A gets more support. </p>
<p>We all know that human nature = we do every thing we can to justify that we’re better than others. Lazy people will do this by pointing at their natural intelligence, while hard working people will point at their work ethics.</p>
<p>Neither.</p>
<p>But if I had to, applicant A. By “wrote in 30 minutes” do you mean his essays were bad?</p>
<p>Applicant A has more potential, we all know that. Maybe that’s why you chose him.</p>
<p>But the question is, do you really believe he’s gonna live up to his potential? We all have heard of the quote, “people never change.” If there were like 100 applicant As, then, based on that quote, the vast majority of them won’t improve for the better. </p>
<p>So I’d take applicant B.</p>
<p>A college would admit neither because it doesn’t want a slacker and a 1500 is unfortunately too low.</p>