2010-02-11, 01:04 PM
Spideyjvc Wrote:Fixed. High school advisors 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. College is a business, 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.
Well obviously they take your grades into consideration too, but since you're applying to a school where most everyone will have the same, fi not higher, GPA as you, it is necessary to fill in extra curriculars to help you out. Obviously computer club won't help much, but if they're appling to be an EECs major or a CS major, it could help them immensly if they know what they're doing.