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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, there's no reliable information out there about auto-rejection for something like that.

The best you can expect from boards like this are posts like, "My kid only took Calc AB and, yes, they got into Schools X, Y, and Z."

My recommendation is that you look very closely at results from your own high school. Focus on the past three years.

It's rather painstaking work, in my experience. Naviance obviously won't help much because it doesn't provide the indended major or the kids' courses. (Also, it doesn't tell you if the kids were hooked, which is the most important information of all . . . . )

We've figured things like this out via word-of-mouth. Started with our high school's "admits" page on IG, where the kids tend to post where they will be going to college. This can be helpful in some ways because it helps us know who to ask for insight and advice. (In our experience, parents of kids a year or two ahead of ours have been incredibly kind and generous with information and advice. We play to pay it forward for the years behind us, of course!)

But again, the admits page on IG is limited to the one school a kid chooses to attend. When asking around, it's helpful to ask about the other schools they applied to, as well. Once you speak with enough families, sometimes you'll see a pattern - Cornell tends to accept STEM kids who stop at CalcAB but Brown tends to deny STEM kids who don't take BC or MVC. (Those are random examples, not based on anything specific.)

And again, so much of this is specific to YOUR DC'S SCHOOL. College tend to compare applicants to their peers, both the year they apply and from recent years past. It's VERY difficult to read the tea leaves and predict these things.

My advice is to encourage your kid to apply widely, and to fall in love with at least two "safety schools" you know they would love. This is not because they took CalcAB instead of BC. It's because the T15 schools are all a crapshoot, even for the most qualified kids.[/quote]

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