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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1 1/2 pages through this thread and not a single mention of test scores. Just GPA. Or rank, which is derivative of GPA. A little nod to rigor, which can be very subjective, too. But nothing about test scores.

How embarrassing. What a flawed system, regardless the type of class a college is trying to build through admissions.[/quote]

Everybody’s got a 34; 35 or 36. That really does not make a difference to admissions officers. Hate to break it to you.[/quote]

That’s not accurate. And who cares about 34 or 35 if we’re writing off 3.8 and 3.9 GPAs?

Less than 2,500 per year with a composite 1600 or 36 in their first and only administration. That’s your 4.0 unweighted equivalent.[/quote]

My daughter has a friend who scored 36 in one sitting and was rejected from Princeton, Middlebury, Williams, and Wesleyan and waitlisted at Syracuse last spring.  Excellent grades and rigor at a top 5 boarding school in Mass. That made me lose my faith in test scores mattering 😂[/quote]

There’s also a difference between one sitting and first sitting. If it’s your 3rd or 4th administration and you finally land on 36, is that the same as the kid who did it in their first and only administration? Of course not.

Nevertheless, sure, I’m sure all of us who aren’t living under a rock can point to inexplicable admissions decisions that we’ve heard about.

Essays, ECs, letters of rec, writing sample (for Princeton), meticulous prep of their common app file, etc. A lot can explain what your wrote, albeit perhaps not the Syracuse note.[/quote]

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