UMich '14 - how will the cookie crumble (ALREADY APPLIED)

yosup
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:27:14 +0000

@ BevoUT

IMO, if you have great test scores and a low GPA, it shows the admissions officer that you’re smart but lazy/don’t care about school work (no offense at all to the OP), which is worse than working hard maintaining a great GPA, and bombing a 3 hour test. They care more about your work over 3 years than that over 3 hours.

That’s why class rank (or just a HS profile if your school doesn’t rank, to show the difficulty of your school to the admissions person) is especially important for the OP. It’ll show that his school is really tough, and that his GPA isn’t bad.