<p>but see, SAY, you speak of SATs as if the admissions committee puts all the emphasis on it - that everything else, no matter how great, is unimportant if one part of one standardized test is below normal. I was deferred from UNC out of state with these scores - and they’re MORE selective than Northwestern for out-of-state students, and they do a very similar thing concerning what is counted and what is not. I must ask you where you yourself are justifying your authority, not only towards me, but to the rest of the board as a whole. If you are a guidance counselor or an adcom, I apologize.</p>
<p>I would also like to apologize to anyone reading this board that may be slightly off-put by my response here. I know that a 600 is not great, but I went into this process expecting that the entire picture as a whole would matter more than one little part of it. I understand now that this may not be the case, but my irritation has less to do with individual posters and more with the emphasis in testing in evaluating my candidacy, notwithstanding everything else.</p>