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[quote=Anonymous]I think, OP, that you may think your DD is a match if your DD's stats fall within certain peramaters of the schools.  But you need to think of it this way: (and I'll make up numbers to make it easy)

These schools only have room for 200 incoming students.  Let's say 8,000 apply.  Of those 8,000, 700 have exactly the stats of your DD.  So 500 totally qualified kids, for sure are going to be rejected.

But it will actually be more, because the school may take kids that are not as high on the stats as your DD because there may be some kids that are legacy, or recruited for a sport....schools like to do things like have at least one kid from each state, so they can say, 'we have kids from all 50 states..."

It's like this, OP:  Your kid may be great and play the trumpet, but while last year the school had a graduating trumpet player and so needed a trumpet player, this year their trumpet player is just going into her sophomore year.  But the cello player is graduating, so this year it's the cello player they need.  Make sense?[/quote]

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