Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

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Probably most of them got close enough to maximum (3.9+ UW GPA with almost all available honors and AP courses, 700+ on every SAT section) that the usual academic criteria in the US becomes much less useful to distinguish between them.

Yes, that’s true, there’s bunching at the top.</p>

<p>But “close to maximum” is not “maximum”. Maxing out (meaning 800 on every test across the board) still puts a student in pretty rarefied air. It’s far more rare than one would think reading this message board. That’s all I’m saying.</p>