Sat-GPA Disconnect

mathmom
Fri, 23 May 2008 21:56:02 +0000

Pinkpinapple, I don’t think any admissions officer will see you as a slacker, but rather as someone who had a little trouble adjusting to high school. A few colleges don’t even look at freshman year grades. I think you’ll have good results.

khs, in some cases a high GPA coupled with low scores would indicate a poor school or a poor environment. I suspect more likely you have a poor test taker in this case. (You might ask her GC if her scores are lower than the average of other students with her scores.) Your best bet is probably to try to raise the grades (try xiggi’s recommendations here on CC), try the ACT, and/or apply to some colleges that don’t look at standardized test scores. There are quite a few of them.