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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a basic rule in admissions, now and in the past: "If your grades are the most interesting thing about you, you're not that interesting". People want to keep denying this and talk about merit and objective measures and such, but that's how admissions people think when they look at applications. Scores are a baseline, what did you do with all those smarts? After years of looking at applications, 80% of students look like the same parent-programmed, "I checked these boxes to get into college but I don't really care about any of these things" people. Sorry, but the A minus or B student --or even just the OTHER A plus student - who did something more compelling or at least unique, is going to get the nod every time.
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LOL yea right WTF
Expect 15 years to do something compelling.
[b]Getting mostly As and 1550 SAT seems very compelling.[/b]

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It’s not at all. 8300 kids/year score a 1550 or higher on the SAT. That’s not even counting the number of kids who scored the ACT equivalent of that or higher, or the fact that colleges have a score threshold of “good enough.” Colleges don’t differentiate between a 1520, 1530, a 1540, a 1550, a 1570 and a 1580.

Basically everybody has straight As. Sorry.

Every kid applying to college went to school for 15 years prior.

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