<p>At my info session yesterday, my admissions officer also said that transcripts are the most important part of the application. She said test scores are the least important (especially because she says that Canadian/International students often do worse on the SAT simply because they aren’t as rigorously prepared as US students). She also stated that, to her, the essays and recommendations are extremely important and that she spends lots of time reading them. This could be just her, though.</p>