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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I say this gently, but did you look at Naviance? You DS sounds amazing, but his GPA seems low tbh. Maybe your DS is at a private, where grading is generally tougher and GPAs are definitely lower. My kid had a 4.5wGPA at good MCPS HS, but that wasn't remotely competitive for an Ivy (or many other top schools.)[/quote]
I have to say I felt the same way about this profile. I actually don’t think there’s probably any difference between my DC and this profile other than they have a a higher Sat but again, anything over a certain  number is treated all the same. Rest of the profile pretty similar and mine didn’t apply to a single Ivy. [/quote]

NP here. Not saying you are wrong, but MCPS weights more than many other districts, including FCPS. In FCPS, an honors class is given 0.5 weight, not the 1.0 of MCPS. You can’t compare weighted GPAs across school districts. [/quote]

that may be true but I am not on MCPS. We don't know this kids school or where that GPA put them but my NOVA kid was top 5 in their class (not percent, top five) and didn't even come close to applying to Ivies. They knew it was a crapshoot and frankly not worth the stress.   Incidentally none of the top ten of that class is going to an Ivy. One got into Duke but chose another, the rest are going to UVA or another similarly ranked school.[/quote]

Generally, it seems like a challenging year for admissions. Anecdotally from my kid’s FCPS school, it sounds like a lot of kids got rejected/deferred/WL from UVA/W&M/VT that had pretty realistic expectations of getting admitted. Also, majoring in CS seems insanely competitive. Really, really tough major for acceptances.

How do you know that your kid is in the top 5 in an FCPS school? I have no idea where my kid stands.[/quote]

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