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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Not submitting test scores told schools your kid (private = privileged regardless of HHI). didn’t have good scores.  One weird thing about your post - Georgetown wasn’t TO. You had to submit them.

Our top dmv private AD told us colleges are not TO for private school kids. That was your mistake. [/quote]

Sorry, you are correct. Had to submit them at Georgetown. Did not where DC had a choice. But we don’t feel like it was a “mistake.” DC is delighted about Georgetown. My point is: the results were a bit random. Rejected and waitlisted at schools that were safeties or targets; in at two reaches and waitlisted at a super reach. Just random. [/quote]

Not so random if you consider that every school is trying to build a class and your DC fits into different schools in different ways.

No point in trying to figure out the black box.  Your DC did well in casting the net - I assume for this very reason, no? [/quote]

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