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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm very sorry.  That sounds really tough and the result of a lot of bad luck.  I agree with all the posters telling you that you have to get a counselor or head master to work the phone for you on schools that waitlisted your kid as part of yield protection.  Even public school counselors have some heft in that situation.

As a cautionary tale for others, I think it means that you have to put in the effort for demonstrated interest to your safety schools.  Perhaps make sure to include your parents' alma mater and visit (for us, that was Ohio State).    And you definitely have to reconsider what you think is a "match" -- [b]schools like Emory and Tulane can never be a match, even if they were in the past and even if you know kids with lower stats get in.[/b]  [/quote]

This is what I don't get. Straight As, 6 APs, 1550 on the SAT, strong essay and recs. How can this not be a match at Emory, Vandy, Tulane? These schools are now filled with valedictorians with 1600s???

Fwiw, my kids are really young so I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just baffled that a kid with straight As and 1550 can't get into Tulane now. Again, they're filling all their freshman seats with kids who were shoe-ins for Harvard 20 years ago?[/quote]

I want someone to answer this too. This is really bizarre. I know a kid down the street who's mother has been bragging night and day about Emory. 1400 SAT.[/quote]

Maybe that's just a coincidence. Emory range on the website is 1420-1530. So that student got lucky. [/quote]

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