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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a lot of these school, for your non-hooked or athlete kid, and not outstanding in some way (except as a great kid), the good standardized scores is probably not enough.  Princeton a couple of  years ago rejected 1/3 of students who applied with 800-800-800 on the SATs.  I've come to see test scores as more of a minimum threshold for the top schools, unless you have something extra.[/quote]

Test scores alone will never be enough.  But if 2/3 of the applicants with perfect test scores are accepted by Princeton, they must really value those scores.  It is worth reaching for schools like that if they are a fit.  [/quote]

There is no way that Princeton admits 2/3 of the applicants with a "perfect" GPA and that sort of proves the point about test scores being more important than GPA.  Standardized test results are still the gold standard for an apples to apples comparison of applicants.  College admissions officers are intellectuals themselves, and they tend to value intellect in their applicants. For this reason they are more likely to dismiss less-than-desirable grades when accompanied by a high test score. A low test score, on the other hand, will throw a high GPA into doubt.[/quote]

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