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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will be difficult for him to get into a top ivy if that is what you are thinking.  Also we don't know what "near perfect " means.[/quote]

OP here -- Yes i know he has super low chances at HYPS or MIT.  Would he have any chances at the other ivies or places such as Duke, UChicago, Northwestern, Hopkins?  What about any USNews top 20/top 25 school?

He has 1600 SAT, 3.98 UW GPA, 1st in his class, many APs and Math II 800, Bio 800, US History 790.  His scores are impeccable it is just that his ECs are weak. He wants to do pre-med. He volunteered over the summer at the local hospital, and also spends 2-3 hours every week there during the school year.  But other than this he has nothing else of substance. He is a member in a couple of clubs at school. That is it.

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That's well more than enough substance. Geez, the kid is working at a hospital he doesn't have to play squash or be on the prom committee or whatever.

He does need to settle on a specific major - premed is a set of prepatory classes but not a major.
Hopkins?[/quote]

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[b]I can't believe OP is stressing about a kid like this.  Good grief.  He'll get in anywhere he wants.  Good for him.[/b][/quote]

No, he won't, unless he's an URM.

OP, he has zero chance of getting into HYPS or MIT. What does your school's Naviance show? SLACs like STEM kids and your kid's numbers will help boost their averages. Do non-sports kids from his high school get into Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore or Pomona? Without looking at the Naviance, you might want to look at schools like Notre Dame, Wash U and Emory.

Also large state universities like out-of-state kids like yours - look at the UCs (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD) and Univ of Michigan.[/quote]

Notre Dame is hugely Catholic - why recommend that school if you don't know if he's Catholic or not?
And stop with the URM crap - just stop. You are racist and ignorant,

He won't bd getting into MIT because he hasn't done significant intellectual work outside of school. [/quote]

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