Recently I have interviewed a friend of mine, Paola Gonzales. She is currently a senior attending UC High School in La Jolla that got accepted to Chico State. I talked with her and asked a couple questions on what she did to get accepted. I asked her what her overall GPA was because the admission counselor had told us how every college has a different overall GPA standard. She answered that her overall GPA was at a 3.27 when she applied earlier this year. The overall GPA for Chico State is a 3.40 but students with higher GPA’s get in. I question how a person with her GPA lower than the standard overall GPA got accepted and she replied with “I know I was surprised too, but I realized that what helped me stand out was my high score on my SAT”. This made me realized that I still have a chance into getting accepted to Chico State with my not so well overall GPA. I did some research on parchment.com and found out that the average SAT score for Chico State is over 1400 and my friend Paola scored a 1640 on her SAT after hard studying and determination. Also after doing research on CSU Chico I found how they look at each category on the SAT. The typical SAT scores for each subject vary; for the