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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Lots of good suggestions here. We have a little bit of time and I'm going to discuss a major change with him or else change what schools he's targeting. He's completely delusional, he wanted to focus on Top 20s and have a couple Top 50s as his "back up"... I told him Top 50s needed to be his reaches.

A neighbor of ours had their son from public get into CalTech and because of the college placement from his private school, my son believes some of these schools are more attainable than they truly are. However, college placement is important to his school and I think even if he won't listen to me, they'll get through to him that he needs some other choices.  [/quote]
So, he thinks that a high achieving public school student is the same as a 3.6 from private school?

Do you know what the neighbor's stats and activities were like?  That might help with the comparison, and where your DS stands.[/quote]

My son thinks a 3.6 from private is good enough and maybe even better than a 4.0 from public. There is no comparison to DS and our neighbors kid. Neighbor is incredibly academic, straight As, many APs, all around wonderfully smart and articulate and URM. My son is... Let's just say, "well-rounded" and not short on confidence, he plays one sport seriously, with a revolving door of other activities, very social and only really applies himself to classes he believes are important. [/quote]
Does your DS not realize that being a URM is pretty big hook? Especially one who is super smart and majoring in STEM?  A white/asian boy in STEM is not a hook.

My kid is white/asian, and a STEM major, with super high stats from a public magnet, so many  APs (all 5s, except one in FL) that they went into college as a sophomore, almost a junior,  passed the UMD MVC exam in HS.  They are a dual major in STEM (straight As in college so far).  Rejected at T10 for STEM, including Caltech.

Those are the types of high achieving kids your DS is competing against.  I mean, I guess anything is possible.

Does he know of any Eng majors from his school and what colleges and stats they had?[/quote]

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