<p>Right, go search for a scatter plot of the SAT scores and GPAs of students who got accepted and rejected at top schools. All the green marks are near the top yes? But you also have to take into consideration all of those red marks that are above and at the same place as those that got accepted, and observe the comparison between those that got accepted and rejected. If one were to only look at the numbers, it would not make any sense at all, due to the reasons listed in my previous post. Of course, I agree with the “certain” part of your statement, its not like a student with straight Bs throughout his/her whole entire high school career and an 1800 on the SAT is going to make it in. But I was simply pointing out the fact that the posts above me made the selection process look as though it were solely based on numbers.</p>