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What do u do with the SAT result? Apply to universities and colleg rite? How does it work, and how do your grades contribute to your chances?



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Slimebeast said:

What do u do with the SAT result? Apply to universities and colleg rite? How does it work, and how do your grades contribute to your chances?

Universities look at them to gauge whether or not someone is a good candidate for admission. Typically, people who do well in math and English get high scores. GPA is a much more important factor colleges take into account when viewing transcripts though. They'll look at SAT scores, but they won't prevent a person from getting into a prestigious university if they have a high academic GPA.

 

For example, I got a 1670 (fairly average) on my SAT, 1500 on my SAT II (exactly average), but graduated with a 4.40 GPA. The GPA alone was enough to be admitted into a University of California, so what I gather is that SAT scores don't impact admission nearly as much as schools want you to believe.