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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious, based on another post that brought up the point that the posts on this board seemed to make a complete shift from "my high stats kid is getting shut out" to 
"Should my kid attend Penn or Vanderbilt?"  (or Tulane or Case? or...).

With all admits in, did your strong stats kid get shut out of all top 40 or top 50 colleges and universities?
I'm wondering what actually happened in the end.
I'm the parent of a junior.

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One important question to ask about s choice of major.

CS is so competitive, for example, that, for most students, simply applying as a CS major or a premed is a sign of idiocy. The kid might have an an SAT score of 1580 but lacks the commonsense God gave a penguin.

The students who are born to be CS majors may have no choice; they are what they are.

But parents pushing the kids who don’t do this for fun to apply to top U.S. schools as CS majors might as well be hanging “I’m a dutiful drone” signs on the kids’ necks.

The path to success lies through figuring how to apply as a history or English major and figure out how to acquire the skills and student jobs needed to get a job with a humanities major, or how to sneak around course enrollment limits and pair the history major with a surprise second major in CS or actuarial math. [/quote]I'm assuming you are addressing students who don't like CS but you think are forced to major in it, because serious CS majors don't like humanities, just like many humanities majors don't like math.

My math/CS major kid would rather go to trade school than major in English or History, and DC is an IB diploma grad.  DC AP'd their way out of most of the humanities gened courses.[/quote]

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