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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't think she has the grades.  Junior.  She thinks SLACs are easier with 40 Plus ED rate.  She has mostly Bs and some As (three B's to every two As).  Courses are somewhat rigorous but not as much as it could be.  Top local private.  Excellent EC.  ACT not taken but getting 31-32 on practices.  Foreign background that would be considered Asian but not traditional Asian countries you would think of i.e. not Chinese or Korean.

Visited Middlebury but thought it to be isolated.  Likes Amherst because less isolated.  External adviser said aiming high. Wants to visit Haverford.  Thoughts on other schools that might be similar to these.  She wants to be a SLACer.   [/quote]

Sounds to me like this is the perfect chance to let life play out and accept the consequences.  You should just make sure she has a variety of options when she makes her applications so there are some sure-things and let the rest happen as it will.  If she is not accepted she will have had her first taste of misplaced overconfidence/arrogance and learn to deal with that accordingly.  Better to do it now than when she is 40!!  If she is accepted she will get there and see that she needs to royally work her butt off to keep up.  Nothing like peer pressure to get a young adult moving!

So I say let her go ahead and try![/quote]

Sure but Amherst, Haverford, and Middlebury with more B’s than A’s and not-so-rigorous?. Time to help her get real unless you just hate the hundreds of dollars those apps (and presumably others in that league) will cost you. [/quote]

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