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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is graduating with something very close to a 3.8 from a "big 3" and had ZERO chance at Harvard, or any Ivy, despite many varsity letters, leadership in clubs, regional awards and summer employment.[/quote]

Really? I would have thought your DC would have a modest shot, no? Not at Harvard, but a couple of the lower ranked Ivies perhaps? [/quote]

Yeah.   What was the problem?  Maybe negative references or bombed interviews?[/quote]

Nope, highly regarded kid whose quarterly and semester reports are very positive, has been team captain etc. [/quote]

Eh.  Something's wrong with this picture. [/quote]

Not really.  You could remove the "bottom" 75% of the students who applied to Harvard this year, and the remaining kids in the aggregate would have had roughly the same percentage chance of getting into Harvard as they would have had in 1990.  The acceptance rate this year was something like 3%.  Yes, a ton of the kids applying this year had no shot and wouldn't have had a shot in 1990, but it would't surprise me if that top 25% of the 2022 applicant pool had qualifications comparable to those admitted 30 years ago.  It's like picking the admitted class as you would have in 1990, and then having to reject 85% of them.      [/quote]

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