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Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points. Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I kno
by iyulaev 13y ago
Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.
Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I know the UC system doesn't care at all about your work experience, and even if you founded a company when you were in HS, that would at best be worth 150-300 SAT points.
Now that I think about it, it's scary that I still remember this.
- flylib 13y agoit will look better on a resume for jobs/further internships down the road though which is just as important anyway
- philangist 13y agoProbably more important. Going to a good school is great, working on cool projects and gaining work experience is awesome.
- adamzerner 13y agonot only that... but it'll be better for finding your passion, for being better at what you do, for networking etc.
- iyulaev 13y agoAgree that it will look better, and is probably a better experience. Sadly college admissions is a game, and it is risky to ignore it.
- vineel 13y agoI'm guessing Shalin is aiming for MIT, Stanford, and schools of their ilk. These fall under "high-end private schools".
- argonaut 13y agoCompletely disagree. I too went through the college admissions process. Yes, public schools care more about standardized numbers (SAT/GPA), but you don't need a very high SAT score (in strictly relative terms to private schools) to get into a top public school, even the top UCs. Put it this way: An elite public school might weight SATs 40%, but the median SAT will only be 2000 anyway. Whereas an elite private might have a median of 2150 with a weighting of 20%. The fact is that public schools will give more weight to SATs, but the threshold for what above average for admission is already lower.