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Reply to "Now that decisions are out.....where are the non-perfect kids getting accepted"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who think it is weird for a kid to be accepted at Amherst and Wms but rejected and UVa and W & M are forgetting that a) there is a substantial element of pure randomness at every school, b) schools want to socially engineer their classes in various ways (more rowers/fewer cellists/more out of staters/fewer girls, whatever) and you cannot predict how this will affect a particular kid, and c) schools want to protect their yield rate and this can actually hurt "overqualified" applicants, since schools may assume they are safeties for such applicants and such applicants won't come, so why bother to accept them?[/quote] And those of you who believed this happened need to listen to those of us who've been through this process several times. There are parents posting in this forum who know more about college admissions than your average college counselor. Use our expertise - we know what we're talking about.[/quote]
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