Really do not understand how people who are "so smart"(or their kids are) cannot grasp the concept that if acceptance rate is sub 10%, it's a highly rejective school and most being rejected are also "highly qualified candidates" |
David Hogg is EXACTLY the type of kids most T25 schools are searching for. Someone that is a leader and will do something with their life. He took a year off/gap year and became a prominent gun control activist during that time. Harvard and the like are looking for kids who will be future leaders, who are motivated to DO something, not just follow others. He was not "exploiting a tragedy". He will be a lifelong gun activist and work to make the world a safer place. Much better than kids who "start a charity for 1-2 years" that really didn't do anything and it dies as soon as they get into a college. |
He got rejected from UCF, too. The media made a big deal about his 4.2 high school GPA, but anyone familiar with Florida public high school grade inflation knows that's like a B-minus average at best. The top students in Florida have GPAs in the 5's. Just scroll through Hogg's Twitter/X feed. He can barely put together a grammatically correct sentence, even after four years at Harvard. The MAGA hat Catholic kid, Nick Sandmann, went to Transylvania in Kentucky. A decent LAC, but unselective and a far cry from an Ivy. |
Thanks DT for your insights! |
No. Luck is a roll of the dice. Here, a person makes the decision. To err is human. |
From what we’re seeing, it’s grades, not rigor that matters. Take the classes for dumb kids and get a 4.0 and you have a better chance than taking very rigorous courses with a few Bs. No wonder why professors are complaining about lack of preparedness and inability to write. |
Nobody has ever answered the question of why there’s a threshold beyond which all test scores are viewed the same (e.g., 1600 is no better than 1500), yet out of the other side of their mouth they defend no such thresholds for GPAs. Why isn’t an u/w 3.9 or u/w 3.8 or even an u/w 3.7 viewed the same as an u/w 4.0? |
It is! Plenty of colleges have GPA thresholds. You can often see them in your high school’s naviance data. |