Carleton for my outdoorsy S???

SAY
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:23:01 +0000

I agree with you but the top schools find a way to pick unique students who also happen to have top GPA’s and test scores. A few years ago the Harvard Dean went around the country telling everyone that the SAT had little meaning and shouldn’t count for much. Maybe so, but year in and year out the average student at Harvard has SAT’s around 2300. The schools very much have a baseline GPA and SAT/ACT that they use as a screening tool and above that minimum(2100-2200 and 4.2-4.4) then the grades and scores no longer matter. This is the only way the ives and other top schools could have such high average GPA’s and SAT/ACTs. But as I said before the standards are much lower if the student has a hook.