Yeah my son did not have good extracurriculars- only athletics.
Some of his friends got accepted by UCB, UCLA and UCI with similar GPA SAT but they were into student gov. and academic clubs
and their parents were not college grads also lived in a less expensive zip code and cough cough not asian.
My guess is if you do 1200-1400 SAT and 3.7 to about 4.o GPA, have college educated parents and higher priced zip code they kinda assume you’ve had access to all kinds of SAT prep courses and tutoring and such so by those numbers you are just average or equivalent
to someone with a lower GPA/SAT from a bombed out high school. But a 1050 still seems very low to me- that’s like UC Merced or something.
A lot of schools seem to like students who look like they are gonna make a lot of noise professionally when they graduate so they can claim ownership of that person.
Wasn’t there a discussion a while back about getting exceptional grades at a low rated high school vs average grades at a top ranked high school or is that info too old to be relevant for now?
Things are just gonna get even more confusing with the SAT waiver.
