Some admission questions, misconseptions

gibby
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:58:21 +0000

I can only give you an example from my son’s school. Two years ago, about 100 students applied to Yale (SCEA + RD). Applicants had averages ranging from 98.1 to 72.9. (Who knows why students with lower averages applied – I’m guessing parent pressure.) That year, the lowest GPA Yale accepted was a 94.8. Based solely upon GPA – without knowing what other factors were considered – Yale denied more than half of the students who applied from one school because they were not competitive enough – they didn’t have better credentials – their GPA was too low. BTW: Some of those students with low averages had 2300-2400 SAT’s, but their grades indicated they were not competitive where it counted – in the classroom.