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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are doing the math wrong because you don't seem to understand how admissions works. They don't rank kids by ACT/SAT and pick off the top. They don't, and they never did. Kids with much lower stats than your kid will get into those 90,000 spots you mistakenly expect belong to the top test takers.

The most important thing to realize is that your child should be focused on what they want to study and which of the thousands of school out there have great undergraduate departments in that area. [/quote]

Glad someone is noting that flaw in the reliance on standardized test scores.  Instead of focusing on checking the boxes to clear the "bar" for ivies or top 50, the kids' and parents' time will be well spent on finding a passion in and out of the classrooms.  There is a right school out there for every student and the success is measured in what the student can get out of opportunities available to him/her.  "Doing the math" from only the applicants' perspective is ill informed and fruitless because ultimately the offer decision is out of your hand.

A friend who has a master from a lesser known local private university has said over and over again that as a VP, he has hired and fired plenty of the ivy graduates. [/quote]

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