Regarding GPA to become Finalist

albert69
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:57:05 +0000

I don’t think anyone knows. It seems that any Cs makes you an iffy candidate, but besides that, if you just have As and Bs and have scores above the minimum, you are usually good. (Assuming you don’t get into trouble at school or write a rude essay.) I don’t know that a higher SAT score trumps a lower GPA, though it can’t hurt to have a high score.

Sometimes people got semester Cs in year courses, but got Bs in the course overall, so if the GC only put in the year grades (which is an option) it might show up as a B. One kid that got rejected a few days ago had one C, but it was in a one-semester health class, so it would have showed up as a C on the grade report. It varies by year as well and there’s no exact published criteria besides “record of high academic achievement” or something vague like that.