GPA/SAT Senior year Grades

MathTeamExtraPro
Sun, 04 Aug 2013 12:27:34 +0000

“unless you are a true competitive athlete who competes on a statewide/nationwide level, that is not going to help you.” originally posted by Marinozai.

I totally agree with Marinozai, if you haven’t been getting multiple rewards and competing out of state in like some state olympics, then your being of an athelete won’t help you much. Though I’m not saying it won’t help you at all, but it will ease the burden on you if we’re considering academic stuff. Being an athelte definitely allows you to have a slightly lower gpa and sat. but if you really want that kind of athletic performance to allow you to have a low gpa and sat and still get you into college, you need to be actively playing and competing in big contests and be recognized as an amazing athlete, not just one at your typical high school on a football team.

I’m not trying to discourage you or anything, im just giving my opinion. furthermore, here’s my advice to you:
-lift your gpa up to a 3 AT LEAST. preferably a 3.3 ← this will make your application look wayyy stronger than your 2.7
-life you SAT up to at least a 1700, preferably a 1800. anything above that will be superb!

ok lets look at this from a bigger perspective. what will look betere? student A or student B?

Student A: 3.0 gpa, 1700SAT, amazing EC and athletic skills

Student B: 3.3 gpa, 1800 SAT amazing EC and athletic skills

Student B definetly looks much stronger and well fit than student A.

hope for the best of you