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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected for all ivy's for CS. Par for the course. 4.4 GPA (3.9UW), 1550 SAT single sitting. 12 APs- all 4s and 5s. College math through Calc 3 taken with As. Tons of incredible ECs in CS and athletics.  Teachers and counselors said they raved. White male. Full pay.

Looks like he will be attending his 14th choice of college.  He never felt he "deserved" anything- he is a gentle soul-  but having been at the top of the class his entire life and working so hard and spending months on these applications, he is very quiet today, processing it.[/quote]

Somewhat similar for DD's BFF: 4.0 u/w GPA in most rigorous classes, 1580 SAT, 2 800 SAT subject tests. No APs offered at school (see sundry threads on why rigorous independents do not offer APs). Good ECs, HS athlete/captain. Great writer. Full pay.

WLed @ Cornell, Duke, Harvard. Rejected @ Brown, Northwestern, Penn and Tufts. Most likely UVA or WashU.

Love this kid. [b]Also hard to see when a couple kids in @ a few of the schools are enrolled in less rigorous classes, but do have connections.[/b][/quote]

So nice to see parents wish other kids would suffer or be punished when they have absolutely no idea what "a couple kids" go through, how they hard work, or what they have to offer. Such mean, nasty parents in this area.[/quote]

Seriously. You are nasty people. you're talking about kids.  You do realize that any kid with above about a 3.5 and 1400 will do more than fine at an Ivy.  the admissions bar for most of much higher than it has to be for success at the universities.  And the schools don't want classes full of 4.0/1600 super strivers who have never made an academic mistake in their lives.  They simply don't and thankfully the Ivy universities and not parents are in charge of filling their classes with whichever flawed students tickle their fancies. For the love of everything holy, get a freaking life.  [/quote]

+100.  I'm sure that kid is fantastic but, for better or worse, that profile is a dime a dozen. WashU and UVA are great and what I would have predicted with those stats. Assuming those other kids are less deserving based solely on "less rigorous classes" is the worst sort of sour grapes. According to DD, not one kid she knows that got into a top school with "connections" wasn't also a superstar in some way or another. But be self-righteous about it if it makes you feel better.[/quote]

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