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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing. You have no way to know whether the schools are admitting and offering merit aid based on weighted or unweighted GPAs. Some schools (mainly big public flagships) are just using a computer to run the stats through and basing admissions on that. Penn State doesn't read essays so they certainly don't care about your clubs. But if you're applying to a place like Sarah Lawrence or Reed, you'll need deep and continuous ECs to demonstrate that you're the type of person they're looking for. That type of school doesn't want boring people he don't engage in their community. Once you meet their GPA threshold, the increase in GPA won't matter until you hit the "top 5%" or "top 10%" of class threshold that they do seem to care about for reporting purposes. But some HSs don't even provide the class rank, so even that might not apply to you.

With TO the GPA is more important than it used to be.

Perhaps focus on prep for the SAT and apply with a score that's stronger than his GPA. [/quote]

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