SAT vs. GPA

RootBeerCaesar
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:42:12 +0000

The GPA is extremely subjective, as its entirely the schools choice if it wants to give everyone A+'s or if it wants every class to be mind-boggling hard. SAT’s put you in a rank with everyone else in the nation, thus being much more important, simply because it shows your academic rank in comparison to everyone. I’m sure millions of people have A’s in school but only a few thousand can get above 2200 on the SAT, so its simply slimming the applicant pool down.

For example; lets say someone had a 4.0 GPA and all that stuff, honors AP everything. If he suddenly gets, like say, a 1700 on his SAT. Sorry, but unless his parents have donated $10,000,000, then hes not going to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, etc.