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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transcript is most important. If we’re talking top 20, things like trajectory don’t matter much because almost all the grades need to be As. If there are a couple Bs, yes better in 9th than 11th. Rigor matters and it’s more important than weighted GPA because not all weighted classes are the same. MV is more impressive than AB, unless you’re coming from an underresourced school. Scores are less important but they matter. Better to have 1500+ along with your straight As. If that’s met, then yeah your ECs matter (unless they are SO incredible that they already mattered). But there are all the other considerations like coming from an underrepresented part of the state. [/quote

One of the problems with this exercise is that respondents build candidates that are far more rare than they think. It works like this:

60,000 high school seniors with a 4.00 WGPA
Of these, 40,000 high school seniors with academic rigor in their transcript
Of these, 8,000 high school seniors have taken a MV calculus course
Of these, 5,400 high school seniors have an SAT score of 1500 or an ACT score of 34
Of these, 4,200 have solid ECs
And of these, 500 come from an underrepresented part of their state

500 candidates isn't enough to fill 1% of the incoming Class of 2028 at T20 schools.

The drive for holistic review and diverse classes rings hollow when whether or not a student took MV calculus is included in the equation. What does MV calculus matter for humanities majors, by way of example?[/quote]

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