Being an Indian, are SAT scores more important than GPA?

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@MYOS1634‌ …

  1. USIEF report http://www.usief.org.in/India-Study-Abroad-Capacity-Report.pdf (page 6) says that 104,000 applied to the US but most of them were graduate students. Are your numbers more recent?
  2. Regardless of the denominator, "45% has the exact same profile" you say. ... Wow. 2400 in SAT 2, 2380 in SAT 1. That would be in the 99% for SAT 2 and probably SAT 1. So you are saying 45% of the Indians are in this 99% bracket?

Pursuing this line, and considering only SAT 1, and assuming 100,000 UG applicants (from India) writing the SAT, and assuming 99% for 2380, this would imply there are 45,000 Indians who are in the top 1%.

With a number like 1 million SAT exam takers, 0.01 * 10^6 results in 10,000 students in the top 1%

… which implies that 45,000 out of these 10,000 students are from India.

Not challenging you, but obviously some numbers (either mine or yours) are wrong. Would be good to have consistent ones.