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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've heard here and in podcasts with AOs themselves, that they treat test scores as a threshold ie, they glance at it, it raises no alarm bells, they move on. Do you think GPA is treated similarly? A kid in top 1% and top 5% at our school is often about if the lower ranked kid took an extra unweighted class like music theory so I find GPA as dicey as test scores, if not more so.[/quote] AOs read a transcript the same way you’d read a resume: they’re hunting for evidence of ambition and follow-through, not just a big number at the bottom. A lot of colleges are more focused on how much students challenged themselves with the courseload rather than GPA itself. Did they take the highest rigor the school offered? How many? Are they continue to challenge themselves in the senior year? Of course you still want a high GPA in the highest rigor courseload, but merely having a 4.0 by itself doesn't really tell the AOs much.[/quote]
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