word of caution for U Chicago applicants

idad
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:01:45 +0000

The post you reference is talking about the correlation of GPA to SAT. That is not what we are talking about here. GPA does not reflect the rigor of the course work, or the work performed in the courses as evaluated by teachers in their recommendations, or how ideas are handled in the essays, or the the passion shown in ECs. (This is why GPA is listed as only considered as well. ) If a student is evaluated highly on all or most of those areas the likelihood of student not having high test scores as well would be quite small. Further, if a student, as rare as it is likely to occur, does rate highly on those elements and does have a somewhat low test score, it is likely not held against them, particularly if they have a knock it out of the park essay.