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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has already graduated so I don’t have a personal story to add, but I will say that parent discussion boards tend to focus on “stats“ to the exclusion of all other things, and my experience having a kid and her peer group applying to highly selective schools is that stats are just the beginning of the evaluation not the endpoint. Schools that use holistic admissions are giving themselves permission to be less interested in 10 points on the SAT or a few GPA decimals and more interested in some unique volunteer Work or a great writing voice or whatever else appeals to them. It is simply true that perfect stats kids get turned away from highly selective schools all the time in favor of kids with slightly less perfect numbers but a more compelling story ( as told through LOR/ECs/essay etc.) So I would be careful about your kid’s assessment that “not as strong” students are getting into better schools, they may be perceived as having more to offer by the admissions committee.[/quote]

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