<p>Agree with Aktiv8d ^^^^^.</p>
<p>Subjective, because there's no such thing as truly "objective" criteria in college admissions.</p>
<p>GPA? Yeah right. It's going to be easier or more difficult to earn that GPA based on the classes you took, the school you went to, the program you're in, your system's letter grade cutoffs, etc. Grade weighting doesn't help because everyone does it differently.</p>
<p>Class rank? It's affected by the strength of your class, and by the rigor of your schedule compared to that of your classmates.</p>
<p>SATs? Closest thing to objective criteria that I can think of, which is why, despite all the flaws of the SAT, I favor continuing to use it, as one flawed tool in a toolbox of flawed tools. But it's not actually a great predictor of college performance, which is what it was intended to predict. It is also a poorer predictor for some groups (women, Hispanics, black students, older students) than for others. One could say, who cares about predictive power? It's still a number. But the whole raison d'etre for the test is as a predictive tool. The SAT IIs don't do much better, as some have much stronger predictive power than others according to ETS studies (SAT IIs + SAT I seem to give better results, though still far from perfect).</p>
<p>thank u isleboy :)</p>