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

Bet these kids wished they actually had fun in high school [/quote]

I'm the one with the DS. He actually enjoyed high school quite a bit. Fun to him is solving complicated equations, running his software development business, attending tech seminars, hanging with friends and franking learning things. He had a very promising future as an athlete due to some inherent physical gifts but he gave it up mid high school to focus on robotics and math because that was more fun for him.   He likely would have made it to every school if he stayed in his sport but his heart is in technology. He is 18 going on 40 and always has been.  So, no, we didn't push him to be who he was and he knows no other way to do things other than to his best. To me, a natural intellectual is the very best student to have; colleges did not agree in his case, but it wasn't because he manufactured any part of his life in at the expense of fun.  I always tell him, you will never work a day in your life because you love to do what people pay lots of money to have done.

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