Worthyness Wrote:Extra curriculars count for a lot less than people expect them to.
Fixed. High school advisers will feed you this along with the line explaining how important SAT scores are, but colleges only look at those when they have a tough time picking between you and someone else. They're not going to take someone with bad grades just because said person went to computer club every day. If they take such a person, it'd most likely be to fill their quota (not official, of course, but they can't have a 100% white school or people will stir up drama).
The college wants to keep its graduate rate up so it can get more rep and rake in more people. Colleges are trying to get money, and won't usually take a blow to their own balls for the sake of giving someone who most likely will drop out the 1st year a chance.
But hey, what do I know about college, eh?
This section is mostly talking about private colleges though. I'm not too sure about publicly run colleges because I would assume they have different restrictions to abide to.
Edit - Crap, forgot I just posted a response to someone else. If any mod sees this, merge please.