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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Weighted GPAs are worthless

2. High unweighted GPAs are not going to get you anywhere in the top 25 without a very rigorous course load with 4 years of every academic subject including foreign language.

3. Any college with a 25% or less acceptance rate is a lottery for kids with nearly perfect stats

4. Naviance does not account for recruits, legacies, courseload, first gen status, full pay status, etc.

5. It’s a tool, not a crystal ball. [/quote]

DD  had straight As, even in APs and honors, won the Wellesley Book Award, was a STEM student, could pay full tuition anywhere, cash. Played sports as well. Great SAT scores. White female with no legacy, rejected from everything but her safeties. Applied to no Ivys by choice.

Don’t tell me her race didn’t play a role in this liberal academic environment [/quote]

The fact you say she could "pay full tuition anywhere, [b]cash[/b]" shows how little you understand about colleges. This isn't like buying a car.

So your DD was an academic star at her high school, but maybe colleges know that her high school isn't very challenging for reasonably intelligent kids. She won the Wellesley Book Award - did she then apply ED to Wellesley? That would've been the only advantage the award might have given her.

A STEM student? Did she have summer internships? Do research? Win state or national science fairs? Get published?

How many leadership roles did she have in school? Was she a team captain? Devote 100's of hours to volunteer work?

For better or worse, your DD is quite average - there are tens of thousands of girls like her applying to college every year. As another PP said, the fact she's female was probably a bigger disadvantage than anything else.

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