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Anecdote: a friend of mine is an admission officer for one of the US largest public university. They told me that if your kid has a 4.0 GPA (a perfect GPA), do
by alberth 3y ago
Anecdote: a friend of mine is an admission officer for one of the US largest public university.
They told me that if your kid has a 4.0 GPA (a perfect GPA), do not take the SAT/ACT ... because, without those standardized test scores - your kid is "perfect".
But unless your kid has a perfect 4.0 GPA, taking the SAT/ACT typically helps your child get into a better school than their GPA might indicate.
YMMV
- elteto 3y agoThat sounds very localized to the institution your friend works at. And public universities have very different admission procedures than private ones. You won’t get into a high tier private university (Ivy or not) without SAT/ACT scores.
- alberth 3y agoWe’re saying the same thing. 99% of kids don’t have a perfect 4.0 GPA. But the point is, if you do happen to have a kid who does - there’s more harm than good that will result from taking SAT/ACT. For all others, it’s highly recommend to take.
- elteto 3y agoI don’t think we are saying the same thing. My point is that, 4.0 GPA or not, if you don’t take the SAT/ACT you will be at a disadvantage when applying to elite, private universities. For the very simple reason that there’ll be many others with similar background as you, with the exact same GPA _and_ SAT/ACT scores. You’ll be more of a wildcard to admissions due to lack of information. If you want to have a chance to get into Harvard/MIT/Stanford/etc you have to take the SAT/ACT. Period.
- alberth 3y agoAre you guessing this or know this for a fact? Because you should make clear if you’re speculating what your saying or know it’s true