<p>What ParthivNaresh said.</p>
<p>It’s not that I don’t sympathize with people who have a high GPA and a low (or not high enough for the colleges they want to get into) SAT score; it’s just that GPA I don’t think shows anywhere near as much in terms of college readiness: it’s not only that it’s unstandardized and comprises numerous variables; it’s also that education will only become more test-based as one enters college. How many college professors do you think actually check homework assignments every day, give any kind of extra credit, and screw your grade over for not having annotated a book?</p>
<p>I think GPA should be considered in college admissions, but only as a crude estimate of effort, such as jobs held or extracurricular leadership. It’s not fair that they stack students up first by GPA (which typically means eliminating ones with, at the most selective colleges, below a 3.5 or so, without even looking at other factors), and THEN by SAT scores and other factors. In the most extreme example, one student could have all 89.5s and teachers who round them up to As, and have a 4.0, while another could have one 89.99, a teacher who does not round up, and 100+ in every other class, and be forever denied the opportunity to look like the perfect student. This is all to say nothing of class difficulty, harshness of grading, situations at home and in personal lives, etc. In contrast, the SAT is the same for everyone.</p>