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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid (11th grade) is smart. Like, super smart. Not genius level, but he has maintained his 4.0 with ease and sails through AP and DE classes. His IQ is somewhere around 140. He hasn't taken the SAT yet, but I'm sure he'll do super well.

Despite all this, he keeps telling me he has "no shot" at good colleges (not Ivies, but schools like UC Davis, Georgia Tech, etc). I really don't understand how college admissions have become so competitive that a child in the 99th percentile will have trouble being admitted to schools without insanely low acceptance rates.

Is he exaggerating, or is this true?[/quote]
It’s not that he has no shot, is that the odds are low.  Actually good to know this going in.  My kid had similar profile but was also a varsity athlete and won some CS competitions.  WL at GT.   My advice is to make sure to visit and apply to a big range of schools.

The good news is that it’s actually not necessary to go to one of these selective schools to get a good education.  My kid is having more opportunities than if he was at an “elite” School. [/quote]

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