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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those schools were statistically pretty much off the table even if your child never got an A and Aldo got perfect SATs. If you mean competitive schools more broadly then a b in 9th grade is fine. [/quote]

This. And, an upward trend can be looked upon favorably.  It's great to have big ambitions but don't fixate on the tippy top schools.

I recommend reading "The Price of Admission" to understand exactly how close to impossible admission is to Ivy type schools for the unhooked.  The acceptance rate you read is not the real rate.  Big donors (almuni and non), athletes, legacies, and underrepresented groups (first-gen/Black/Latino/states that rarely send) are much more likely to get accepted.  The underrepresented groups still need the perfect transcript and great ECs.  For the rest, that doesn't matter so much.  Your non-athlete, unhooked is so unlikely to get admitted that it makes zero sense to orient a student's high school plan around doing so.  Sure, apply, you never know, there is a small set of students who ultimately win that lottery but it really says nothing about them being more special that the kids who were equally qualified but didn't get in.  Make sure your kid understands the game.[/quote]

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