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"Invitation" to NYU, high test scores but poor grades?
My brother-in-law (who's a few years younger than me) had been doing very poorly his junior year of high school. He usually tests very strongly, but this year his attendance was downright bad, and he consequently received mixed grades, half As and Bs, half Ds and Fs. By the time the year was over, he had missed around 30 days of school.
During the summer, my mother-in-law shared with me that he scored a 31 on his ACT, and subsequently received an "invitation" to attend NYU (they live in the middle of the country). I had never heard of anyone being invited to a college before, especially someone who wasn't in their senior year and had done poorly in their current school year. Is this normal?
When I asked the other family members about it, they responded that colleges aren't generally interested in grades (or attendance), but test scores.
Is any of that true? It was just something I was curious about.
I'm just curious, because if it's possible to get into college on what's basically test scores alone, that's certainly something that would benefit me to know about. I had a high ACT score myself with medium grades.
For the record, he apparently doesn't want to go to NYU, so there's not much to congratulate at the moment.
3 Answers
- DickLv 57 years agoFavorite Answer
Colleges send these to everyone in the hopes they'll apply. People who:
a) Leave emails
b) Leave addresses
c) Express interest in a college
d) Are discovered to have high scores (like your brother-in-law)
constantly receive these "invitations". Colleges do this because they want to lure more applicants. This improves their chances of getting good applicants. It also has the added bonus of making them look more selective, thus boosting their ranking.
Colleges do look at grades. Smaller colleges look more at grades but large ones tend to care a little more about test scores. Either way, there are no colleges that don't weight grades heavily.
- 7 years ago
I get "invitations" from colleges all the time because the ACT organization gives your information to colleges, by senior year he'll be getting hundreds of letters and emails customized to look like the college actually wants you specifically and isn't sending them to everyone. Every senior I know (and I, a senior myself) is tired of them and some of my college friends still get them.
