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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With [OP's DC's] profile, [b]no school is out, but top schools are enough of a crap shoot[/b] that they shouldn't expect to get in either. There is nothing wrong with shooting their shot at ivy league schools- they have the same odds that any other unhooked kids would have. [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]A 3.95 UW gpa is near perfect. They have great SATs and ECs with leadership.[b] If T20 is out of reach for this kid, then it's out of reach for any kid[/b]. [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Public school [b]grades have become so inflated[/b] it’s really hard to say. ... [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]This is what people fail to understand. T20 and top SLAC are a [b]huge reach for even high stats kids[/b] if you don't meet some sort of institutional priority. And in RD - that extends into T30 and down the SLAC list.[/quote]
I'm normally not much for multi-quotes -- some related others not -- but I found these thought-provoking and somewhat wrenching.

A near-perfect report card (old term, I know) and very high SATs [i]should[/i] make them a [i]viable[/i] but not necessarily [i]certain[/i] candidate for Top schools. Assign whatever number you want, 10-20-50, to "Top". But I believe the last quote to be more today's reality. Without a hook, "top" anything is still a lottery.

Our DC is interested in a direct-admit major (not CS or engr!) and after (surprisingly) much discussion/contact with the program admissions staff (at a rather large OOS U) initiated and favored by DC, they openly stated they compute their own [i]and[/i] [u]un[/u]weighted GPA of the courses they considered most important [i]to them[/i] (which sometimes changes over time).

So we've just told DC to do their best and still enjoy their final year of HS, and we'll let the chips on admissions and/or merit fall where they may. We cannot be full-pay and know some choices may have to be made. However, we believe DC's targets are reasonable (academically and financially) and almost am having to force any sort of application to a "reach". Safeties? Between holistic admissions and yield protection, both of which are understandable -- there aren't many anymore, IMHO.

Good luck to the OP. Keep yourself grounded to support your DC through this process. :)[/quote]

These kids are viable, but viable just means they go in the unhooked pile with 1,000 other great applications. They have the chance any other unhooked kid has, but it is not a good one [/quote]

More like 10,000s of thousands of great applicants.[/quote]

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