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[quote=Anonymous][quote]His college outcomes make me wonder what his GPA was like. The kid must've been a C student. Because I'd think that even a "B" with Dalton, legacy and being an AA male would've at least gotten him waitlisted.[/quote]

That is ridiculous.  Even at prep schools like Dalton, you need better than a B average to get wait listed at ivies and the most competitive SLACs.  Even as a legacy and AA male, you're not getting waitlisted at Stanford with those grades.  A-/high B+ student from Dalton, maybe.  But the leg up for legacies and under-represented minorities is not nearly as huge as people think on here--we're talking about 3.6 GPA students from prep schools rather than 3.8.  Times have changed in terms of how competitive college has gotten.

Given that he got into several good schools--Occidental is a nice, fairly selective liberal arts school where he can get a great education.  It seems like he only failed inasmuch as he failed his parents unrealistic expectations.  It reminds me of my friend's sister (who had overbearing chinese tiger parents) who was pissed because she was choosing between Duke and University of Chicago rather than Harvard and Yale.  He was probably a solid B student.[/quote]

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