Which is better? Most rigorous or higher GPA?

Data10
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:53:57 +0000

thibault:

At the most selective private colleges, for unhooked applicants from schools not well-known to the admissions committee the GPA and rigor debate is for all intents and purposes moot. The unhooked/unknown HS applicant’s chances of getting admitted to an Ivy+, even with a ‘1’ academic rating, are next to zero.

It depends how 1 academic is defined. In the Harvard lawsuit sample, non-ALDC applicants with a 1 academic had a 66% admit rate – the clear majority were admitted. The regression analysis found that a 1 academic rating was associated with a greater admission advantage than all types of analyzed hooks except for recruited athlete. However, 1 academic ratings were very rare and involved more than just having high stats.