Regarding GPA to become Finalist

aqrulesms
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:37:34 +0000

Hello people,

I am in the class of 2016 and recently took the SAT as well as the PSAT earlier. I scored a 234 on the PSAT and a 2260 on SAT. I’ve made, so far, all As in my semester grades in Freshman, Sophmore, and Junior year up to now (although that’s subject to possibly change).

I live in Texas so I certainly still made the cut despite the high standards. I’m confident I can make finalist but of course I question the GPA aspect of things.

What, in the last few years, has the observed/inferred criteria for rejecting people been based on? I’m wondering because I’ve read people making 2 or so semester Cs yet still making Finalist, while others that did not. It’s a weird deal and I wonder what saved them as opposed to other people.

Also, do they generally give less weight on GPA if you score sufficiently high on the SAT/PSAT compared to other candidates? For example, will they look at the candidate with a 3.4 UW GPA 234/2280 over/equally to a 3.9 UW 220/2190?