I wasn't the best student in high school (2.65GPA) but I did have excellent standardized test scores. I feel like they really helped me in my college hunt and w

I wasn't the best student in high school (2.65GPA) but I did have excellent standardized test scores. I feel like they really helped me in my college hunt and were a significant factor into getting accepted into some of the schools I did. There are other people like myself who are just bad students for one reason or another. A student's future prospects of education shouldn't be dependent on just test scores or a GPA (what this is playing into) because those scores aren't reflective of a student. It's reflective of them playing into the system. The system rewards the typical student — or what we think of as a typical student — and completely neglects the overall picture of the student. Does my GPA reflect being sexually assaulted by a teacher? Having my best friend die? Having an increasingly troubled home setting? Running out of my medication routinely? Being bullied? No. My GPA simply indicates how I did in the classroom. A student has an array of attributes. Only one of those attributes is score. Other attributes factor contribute and influence score. I realize it's hard to quantify or quality non-tangibles into these attributes. But it needs to be done for the betterment of future students.