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Congrats to the admitted students! Can you please share what kind of profile your child has to be admitted as a local? My junior would love to go: 32 ACT, 5 on AP exams, 4.67 weighted gpa but no extra curriculars or volunteering at all. He has a job as a dog walker. [/quote]

My best advice (similar kid just admitted to top 10 school): invest time and money into bumping that score up to a 34. It is very very doable for a kid who already has a 32. ECs? Don’t sweat it. Instead, reframe that dog walking and personal hobbies/interests into a coherent story. For my kid, we reframed his eccentric hobbies and interests into a story that showed him as a funny, interesting guy who has strong interests and passions. He is not a joiner of clubs and activities, but this worked for him. GL![/quote]

Please share more about your journey...how did bumping up to a 34 change things for your DC?[/quote]

Not the PP, but figure out what questions missed, if a theme, etc. then work on those while keeping pace when studying for the other sections. For example, my DS had consistently high verbal/reading/science scores, so he just put more time into the math. Some tutor programs want the student to balance across all four sections while his program was devote time to where needed, not to what you've already mastered.

A 34 just moves you closer to the sweet spot of the pile of 35/36 where reviewers just then pivot and focus on other parts of your application.

GL to your DC![/quote]

At a recent national college counselors event, the advice was that a high stats kid who hit 1500/34 makes it to the sweet spot for most selective colleges. I guess we can argue that particular colleges have different sweet spots, but the experts’ consensus seemed to be 1500/34 as a target. It’s very doable if you are coached correctly. For our DC, it worked to get the result we wanted. [/quote]

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