My kid isn't getting in

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Anonymous wrote:It’s tough. I’m very sorry. My son was a very average kid, academically. It made it easier in a way. Applied to 12 schools, 10 were state flagships. He got into 10/12 schools and felt really good about himself for the first time in a long time (with respect to school). He attended a large state flagship and is doing very well in college.
My daughter is more of a 90 percentile kid. We will be steering her to similar schools as her brother, however, for a multitude of reasons including taking the damn pressure off a bit that is so woven into living in this area.

As I’m sure I’ll be asked, his schools:

Admitted (29 ACT and 3.4 GPA)
U of SC
Penn State (summer program)
Clemson (summer program)
Alabama
Auburn
Indiana
Ole Miss
UC Boulder
Pitt
TCU

Not admitted: Ohio State and U of GA

Auburn Alumni here! My sister attended Alabama. Thanksgivings are a blast lol. Congrats to both your children and to you as well. My husband and I have two goals for out girls' college journey- avoid the pressure and make sure they graduate college debt free. We tell them good credit and zero debt is the best gift we can give them.

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Did the OP’s child get in anywhere yet?

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Anonymous wrote:Did the OP’s child get in anywhere yet?

He is admitted to colleges OP consider safeties.

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This is so hard. Hugs to all the folks getting rejected. Your kids will do great, schools aren't everything

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Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Did you see the essays/recs? Otherwise, I'm at a loss bc those seem like amazing stats

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Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Sounds like she/he picked the wrong schools to apply to: 4.0 with only 7 APs in the the DMV at a Magnet? Seems low amount of AP coursework for a magnet?? Excellent SAT score though. I’d assume they had prep test work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Sounds like she/he picked the wrong schools to apply to: 4.0 with only 7 APs in the the DMV at a Magnet? Seems low amount of AP coursework for a magnet?? Excellent SAT score though. I’d assume they had prep test work.

DP. This is after the junior year, so it is a lot of APs

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Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Did you see the essays/recs? Otherwise, I'm at a loss bc those seem like amazing stats

It could have to do with race and gender.

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Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Did you see the essays/recs? Otherwise, I'm at a loss bc those seem like amazing stats

Asian?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Sounds like she/he picked the wrong schools to apply to: 4.0 with only 7 APs in the the DMV at a Magnet? Seems low amount of AP coursework for a magnet?? Excellent SAT score though. I’d assume they had prep test work.

My senior at Blair magnet only took 6 AP exams before senior year. They have a lot of magnet electives that don’t match AP exams.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

Sounds like she/he picked the wrong schools to apply to: 4.0 with only 7 APs in the the DMV at a Magnet? Seems low amount of AP coursework for a magnet?? Excellent SAT score though. I’d assume they had prep test work.

My senior at Blair magnet only took 6 AP exams before senior year. They have a lot of magnet electives that don’t match AP exams.

Yup, mine too. Taking 3 this year pluas magnet classes. This magnet program has classes that are equivalent to APs in rigor with greater depth in certain areas. The program info sheet explains that.

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Anonymous wrote:OK here's the brutal truth. My kid is a 90% kid who thinks he's a 99% kid. 1500 SAT. 4.5W GPA with a solid rigor- 11 APs but not in hard science or math. He got into Scholars but not Honors at college park. Rejected from UVA. Neither outcome was unexpected, but both still hurt.

We paid for test prep. We paid for a college counselor. We paid for editors for the essay. We did not pay for private K-12. So recs were from public school teachers and administrators who are overworked and can't really glow even if they want to. We filled out a FAFSA.

He's getting rejected or deferred from everywhere (elite publics and privates) except safety schools. I know, it happens. I know we should have been prepared for this. It has to happen to someone.

And as special as my kid is, being 90th percentile in a world of 99.9th percentile can be a crappy feeling. Add to that not being full pay, not being a legacy, and not being a recruited athlete. I wish I could undo the last two years. I wish I could reset as the goal getting admitted to the state flagship and other out of state publics that offer merit aid and call it a day. That's good enough and trying to shoot for more is a dream that is largely reserved for the extra-brilliant, or the upper crust.

If I could do it over I would have him apply to Miami of Ohio and Wisconsin and Pitt and the other public schools that take a lot of kids from this area instead of all these crazy expensive private schools with much smaller classes where kids like him applying are a dime a dozen. At the time he didn't want to because he knew College Park is a better school than all these options. So he'd rather cast a wide net with the more selective private schools. But now it's coming down to the wire and it really feels like he will literally have NO choices. I am regretting his whole strategy. I just hope similar parents out there can hear this and inform their own choices.

He's being compared against the other students applying from his high school. If his course rigor isn't as tough as theirs (they have hard science and hard math) his application will have less weight.

Course rigor, means a lot to admissions. I was told that is why I was wait listed at a few top State Univ---and I had all As--APs, etc., just not as tough as others from my high school class.

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Anonymous wrote:OK here's the brutal truth. My kid is a 90% kid who thinks he's a 99% kid. 1500 SAT. 4.5W GPA with a solid rigor- 11 APs but not in hard science or math. He got into Scholars but not Honors at college park. Rejected from UVA. Neither outcome was unexpected, but both still hurt.

We paid for test prep. We paid for a college counselor. We paid for editors for the essay. We did not pay for private K-12. So recs were from public school teachers and administrators who are overworked and can't really glow even if they want to. We filled out a FAFSA.

He's getting rejected or deferred from everywhere (elite publics and privates) except safety schools. I know, it happens. I know we should have been prepared for this. It has to happen to someone.

And as special as my kid is, being 90th percentile in a world of 99.9th percentile can be a crappy feeling. Add to that not being full pay, not being a legacy, and not being a recruited athlete. I wish I could undo the last two years. I wish I could reset as the goal getting admitted to the state flagship and other out of state publics that offer merit aid and call it a day. That's good enough and trying to shoot for more is a dream that is largely reserved for the extra-brilliant, or the upper crust.

If I could do it over I would have him apply to Miami of Ohio and Wisconsin and Pitt and the other public schools that take a lot of kids from this area instead of all these crazy expensive private schools with much smaller classes where kids like him applying are a dime a dozen. At the time he didn't want to because he knew College Park is a better school than all these options. So he'd rather cast a wide net with the more selective private schools. But now it's coming down to the wire and it really feels like he will literally have NO choices. I am regretting his whole strategy. I just hope similar parents out there can hear this and inform their own choices.

He's being compared against the other students applying from his high school. If his course rigor isn't as tough as theirs (they have hard science and hard math) his application will have less weight.

Course rigor, means a lot to admissions. I was told that is why I was wait listed at a few top State Univ---and I had all As--APs, etc., just not as tough as others from my high school class.

There are just not enough spots for all the straight A students so they have to narrow it further and they take the straight As from the more challenging courses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

My guess: DC is Asian.

Are Asians not admitted?

What is this all about?? Just saw a photo of the Princeton girls tennis team and they are predominately Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC high stats from magnet, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0 UW, 4.78 W, 7 AP's with all 5's and one 4, school club leader, founder of a national non profit rejected from Princeton and top public schools, accepted into UMD honors.
What is wrong with this profile? Got deferred from a couple other top public schools. So far UMD is the only one in hand.

My guess: DC is Asian.

Are Asians not admitted?

What is this all about?? Just saw a photo of the Princeton girls tennis team and they are predominately Asian.

Gross