<p>unbelievablem, you make an excellent point. Brandeis- more than other schools- values accomplishments in the real world. They want to attract the student who organized a drive to feed the hungry or founded her own dancing schools. Brandeis wants to see very high GPAs and solid SATs, but in order to continue Brandeis’s emphasis on being a school of practicing social justice, they must attract the real achievers: those who overcame adversity and made a difference in this world. </p>
<p>see <a href=“http://www.brandeis.edu/admissions/accepted/connected/meet.html[/url]”>http://www.brandeis.edu/admissions/accepted/connected/meet.html</a> for the kind of student Brandeis wants so badly that they would give merit aide.</p>