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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW: my kid, whose GPA was strong from a rigorous private but who applied test optional everywhere due to non-spectacular ACT scores (32), applied to 14 schools-- accepted at Vermont, Dickinson, Lafayette, Denison, Emory and Georgetown; rejected at Duke, BC, Carnegie Mellon, and Vassar, and WL at UVa, VT, W&M, and Yale.

None of this makes any particular sense to me. DC had strong recs and essays, medium extra currics and sport, white, no hooks.

To me all this just illustrates how random all this is. DC leaning towards Georgetown and is happy, but still baffled about those WL schools! (Was expecting acceptance at at least W&M and VT, and rejection at Yale. Go figure).[/quote]

You lost me at non-spectacular 32 ACT - that’s 97th percentile you f-ing idiot.[/quote]

Um… are you okay, PP? You seem a little overwrought. Why does this make you feel that you need to savagely attack someone?

Unfortunately, a 32 is unspectacular by the standards of elite schools. Sucks, but it’s true, as even most f-ing idiots know. [/quote]

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