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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown: Rejected
UPen: accepted
Harvard: accepted
4.6 GPA
11 APs all 5s
1540 SAT
Great EC[/quote]

URM?  Athlete?[/quote]

I am the poster. I am shocked to see some of these reactions. Here is a little background. 
We are in Virginia but not in DVM. She will be indeed the first in the family to attend a 4-year college.
She handled all her college stuff. Father is a blue-collar worker and I work in health care. 
At the start of the process, she only applied to two schools: UVA and VCU. But the school called 
a meeting and urge us to consider top out-of-state schools. They specifically said that our daughter was
underselling herself. Applying to these schools or even getting accepted was not on our radar until this meeting with the school. 
It was at this point, I started doing some research and started reading stuff on this forum.

She also had a good interview. The interviewer specifically said that it was his best interview. [/quote]

I don't know what's wrong with all these other people. It sounds like you have raised a smart, hard working, committed, young lady, and she will do very well wherever she goes. Much luck to her, and I hope she changes the world.[/quote]

People were reacting to the fact that the poster didn't initially mention that her daughter was first gen. If she had said that from the start, everyone would have understood why she was accepted to Harvard and Penn. That's almost certainly why her daughter was accepted, not because of her "Great ECs." There are nothing wrong w/ hooks, but people should be upfront. Otherwise it's a misrepresentation and gives others false hope.[/quote]

She may not have realized that those are important. Regardless, I don't know why people can't just be happy for these high achieving children. I don't know what y'all were doing at 17, but I sure didn't have long term ECs, commitment to service, 11 APs and amazing GPA/SAT scores, while going to a rural public school as the child of parents who did not go to college.[/quote]

I’m very happy for the child, who sounds like a rock star. I also responded saying that something was missing from the fact pattern, and I was right. Being rural, blue collar background, and first gen is a big boost. But that in no way takes away from the accomplishment, and PP should be proud. PP may not have even realized rural, blue collar background, and first gen are actually hooks, and that’s okay. Not everyone lived and breathes admissions arcana.

So, in summary, the people who said that part of the story had to be missing were correct, but that doesn’t mean this wasn’t a huge accomplishment or that PPs child is not a rock star. [/quote]

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