EOP/HEOP, and other Opportunity Programs

sybbie719
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:15:19 +0000

Two low income students from different high schools have identical high GPA’s, same high ranking, both have good EC’s, same awards, etc.



Not going to happen as college admissions will take into consideration that the HEOP student coming from Stuyvesant (yes, Stuyvesant) with the same GPA will be a different student from Samuel Gompers high school in the bronx. However, students are still evaluated in context to their environment.
HEOP is not a major advantage in admissions as you see you self, most colleges in the SUNY system are hardpressed to take in 100 students from the entire state through the entire cycle and as I said in my previous post most private colleges take way less than that. When you take into consideration the number of students from NYS applying to college (NYC has a over hundred thousand alone) actually getting HEOP is probably more competitive than getting in to an elite school because there is not enough space or $$ to fund every worthy student.



My question is: Why is it that there is a limit on the Critical Reading/SAT score, but not on GPA? IMO the SAT is a lot more trivial than GPA, and shows much less about a person’s ability to perform than a 4 hour exam.



The GPA is an indication of performance over a sustained period time (3 to 3.5 years) and actually shows more about a person’s ability to perform than a 4 hour exam which is why even in elite admissions, GPA is given more weight than SAT scores.