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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A kid like this should go for it.

People on this board love to cite the necessity of “national level awards” for ivies/t-10. We pretty closely know kids at every ivy plus Duke, Northwestern etc (don’t know anyone at Stanford!), including one of my kids, and all are amazing kids who had excellent grades, extracurriculars, so on but none had a national level award. Tbh other than a national science fair award or debate ranking, I don’t even know what those would be. [/quote]

Agreed, and to expand on that, the amount of "my kid has top grades and scores" posters here whose kids actually don't have 4.0 U/W, don't have 12+ AP classes with scores on all AP exams of 5 (arbitrary levels that I selected simply to illustrate the point that "top" is far too subjective), and don't have a one-and-done 1600 or 36 is astounding.

Nationwide, there are maybe 200 kids that meet the standard above. If you read DCUM, you'd think that every other kid meets the standard based on the "top grades and scores" rhetoric.

That said, go for it! That profile seems plenty good enough to buy a Wonka bar and hope for a golden ticket.[/quote]

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