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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Among by dd’s friends, kids with top stats that were shut out wound up at Georgetown and Boston College.  Another with incredible extracurriculars (won the school service award) and great grades shut out everywhere but Maryland.[/quote]
So much of college admissions to the top colleges appear to be a lottery.[/quote]

It’s a lottery because the kids are all the same.

UMC, suburban, 1450+, 3.8+, classical instruments (piano/violin NEVER accordion or blaster beam), Key Club, Shadow a Doctor (parent or parents friend), STEM (NEVER classics or poetry or basket weaving), essay is about dead grandma/dog or trip abroad opened my eyes, Model UN (France, NEVER Papua New Guinea) there are only four future professions: law, medicine, engineering or finance.

You’re the AO at an T25 and you get 25k applications that look like this-100 alone from TJ.

Now what?

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Have 2 unhooked DCs admitted to their 1st choice (ivy and top ranked SLAC) in past several years. Prob admitted due to unique EC/hobbies that aligned to their intended course of study (not STEM related). One is now majoring in CS now. Other looks to be going into Finance/Consulting after graduating. Every dept has profs that needs students to major in the subjects they teach. [/quote]

My DS could have done that, but he decided to be honest and say he wanted to study CS, which is what he is doing and minoring in the unique area. To each his own.[/quote]

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