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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Facts:
Son UW GPA 4.0. NEVER made below an A (even middle school). WGA 4.5 (only classes that are weighted are AP level) Top 1% class (everyone with a 4.0 gets rank of 1 so % rank based on WGPA)
9 APs total after Senior year including good mix of science (AP Physics 1,2 and C), math (Calc BC), computer science, humanities (history, government)....
1550 SAT one sitting May of junior year (balanced math/verbal score)
Attends specialized engineering courses through CC and Magnet program
Eagle Scout with lots of leadership positions and projects through the scouting program
Lots of EC focused on computer science that he does because he loves them and does totally on his own (has website blog with details of all projects that is very well written)
Community service since 9th grade (even through covid) at same organization - has many hours
Awesome LOR from computer science teacher and AP physics teacher and community leader
Coherent, funny, on topic essays

Deferred Purdue CS
Offered Exploratory Studies CU Boulder
Admitted to Pitt CS and GMU CS with honors
Admitted to VCU CS

Waiting to hear from GT, UT Austin, Wisconsin Madison, U Washington, Rice and not expecting good results based on the deferral and exploratory studies garbage can offer.

If choices end up being Pitt, GMU or VCU so be it but that seems ridiculous. She has so much potential. Pitt seems to be the winner so far[/quote]

1. Stop borrowing trouble.
2. He’ll do great at any of these schools.
[b]3. You should realize there are LOTS of applications that look like his.[/b] [/quote]

#3 x1000. There are 188 kids in my son's classs; at least 8 classmates have perfect unweighted 4.0s that are even higher when you add AP classes, and while I don't know their SAT scores I suspect they're all in the 1550ish range. Everything else is sort of "expected" and Eagle Scout is not the big deal that many parents think it is (there are more than 50,000 every year.)

He has a lot of wonderful choices.

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You suspect do you?  There you go, case closed.  Looking at Naviance at my kids MCPS HS, I see about 4-5 kids (total) in the last few years with SAT scores that high.  Lots of kids with 4.0s and a lot of APs though.[/quote]

One can walk around Langley HS in McLean or Churchill HS in Potomac and very likely run into one with a perfect GPA and 1550+ SAT.  There are many of them out there.[/quote]

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