<p>What if I got really low in GPA but really high in SAT?
Do i still stand a chance for Ivy?</p>
<p>what is your definition of ‘low’</p>
<p>^ LOL
To answer your question, GPA is extremely important. A low GPA and a high SAT often means that you are either lazy in school or that you prepped a ton for the SAT and are a mediocre student. That being said, if a low GPA to you is a 3.8 or a 3.9 I wouldn’t sweat it.</p>
<p>How about Canada?</p>
<p>Well the number “GPA” often doesn’t mean much, depending on the scale used and whether harder classes are weighted. But what does matter is the level of courses taken (most rigorous courseload?) and the grades received in those courses. This matters just as much as if not more than SAT scores, especially for good schools, as SAT scores show only achievement on one test at a time, but grades and level of courses taken shows hard work and intelligence on a much longer scale.</p>
<p>^ The GPA means quite a bit! Even if you take many rigorous courses, if your UW GPA isn’t good, your chances for admission at the most prestigious universities are shot. While weighted GPA might not mean a lot, UW GPA certainly does.</p>
<p>From what I understand-- GPA means next to nothing if your school ranks. Then your rank is important.</p>
<p>I mean that the number “GPA” means nothing because different schools calculate it in different ways. Your GRADES and rank matter, but the NUMBER that is specifically GPA doesn’t. My “unweighted GPA” was a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale according to what my guidance counselor wrote on college apps, as the way my school calculated “unweighted GPA” was to treat each class as though it were advanced (highest level - a 99 in an advanced class was a 5.4), but to call it a 4.0 scale because all 99s in standard (lowest level) classes was a 4.0. Yeah, my school didn’t understand. But I am pretty much POSITIVE that the number GPA doesn’t always mean anything, without the context of a) what the grades behind a GPA actually are (if a 3.6 = an A-, then a 3.6 GPA is pretty good), and b) rank, if it is available, as well as c) how hard your classes were. That’s all I mean; that random ways of calculating GPA often make it meaningless, but that grades and rank etc. actually really do matter (and grades are what GPA is based on).</p>
<p>wow…the case is i’m a new immigrant in Canada. my average is about 85-90%. i attend a public high school and it doesn’t offer AP courses. I took 3 AP exams this year cuz’ school work is so boring…
i still don’t get the way things work here…the assignments always make me sleepy…thus i really don’t have the confidence on making my GPA higher…</p>
<p>Is your average 85-90 in the US or from Canada?
Do you know your rank?</p>
<p>Most places in the US an 85-90 is a “B” or possible a very low “A.”(If it is a 90) Frankly, no matter how high your SAT scores are-- no one gets into an Ivy with a “B” average in a regular school. Welcome to the U.S.</p>
<p>I assume he means Canada.
In Ontario high schools, 80+ is considered as an A. It’s practically impossible to get like, 97 average or something like that.</p>
<p>^
The regional director for Ontario would send a note to this affect. However, I’m not sure whether he means 85-90 in Canada or in the US.</p>
<p>lool i have a 3.8 EEK</p>
<p>Is an A- a 3.7? If so then a 3.8 is fine…</p>
<p>yeah it’s a 3.67, and i have a 3.86 =[</p>
<p>but i do have a 4.61 w if that’s good =/</p>