Is all the work in high school worth it?

ucbalumnus
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:56:26 +0000

xiggi:

A perfect GPA will never undo the negative impact of a low SAT or ACT, safe and except in states that use a HS rank as the sole yardstick for admissions (such as Texas.)



However, lower test scores are more easily fixed at the later stages of the game (late junior or early senior year) through test-specific studying and retaking, while lower GPA (as in <3.5 when applying for the most selective colleges, <3.0 for moderately selective colleges – NOT “oh no, I got one B so my GPA is only 3.94”) is not as easily fixable.