Does GPA matter?

Hi everyone, i am a 17 year old student currently enrolled in an accounting bachelor, going into my second year in the Netherlands. My current interest in investment banking made me decide i want to study in the US, so i started looking into colleges and universities in the us. my grades from my high school are very bad, since it didn't matter and there is no competition, so i have a low gpa (2.3 or so). my SAT won't be a problem, i always perform good when i'm well prepared and my first exam went really well, so getting a 1500 is doable. my goal is a top 25 uni in finance, since it will most likely be a target uni for Investment Banks. So if my SAT and english tests are really good, how much do they look at your gpa as an international student?

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my plan is to follow my bachelor in the US and not finish this one. when applying for the bachelors i need to send my school transcript and as you know it's really bad because i never needed higher than a 5.5 (D) to pass the classes and there is no competition at all so i was just lazy throughout the entire 5 years. 16 years is pretty young but i skipped 1 class

 

Not super knowledgeable on this, but a below 2.5 gpa is pretty much an auto ding from t10 schools for American students and I don’t imagine it being better for international as you are somewhat of a liability. t25 might be possible but that’s a really bad gpa bro sorry. If it was like a 3.2 that would be a different story

 

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