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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid wasn’t even commended.  Perhaps an off day bc was focused on a school activity that afternoon or maybe not as smart as other kids. Whatever.

Kid did get a 1540 on SAT in 1 sitting (common app shows how many tries it takes to get score).  Also had all 5s on AP exams and took a high number of AP exams compared to school peers.  Had 2 B pluses in high school - including 1 junior year - so not valedictorian but higher GPA than many and high rigor (calc BC, all lab sciences, 4 years foreign language, wants to be Humanities major). Solid but regular high school activities (varsity letter winner in multiple sports, club officer, team captain etc).  Known as a “nice” kid.

Was accepted REA to first choice school this fall.

All that is to say commended doesn’t make a kid or break an applicant.[/quote]

So some kids do get commended, but maybe didn't have one of the things YOUR kid has.   Why is it ok to take that away from them?
What if your kid had been forced to intentionally hide one of the things you mentioned above?   You'd be ok with that?[/quote]

What was taken away from them? Did they fail to check their own score? My kid never got a 'certificate' or 'ceremony' from his school, but knew right away when he logged in and saw his score that he made the cut and put it on the common app.  I haven't read all of this stuff, so maybe I'm missing facts, but what exactly is the argument people are making that these kids were prevented from knowing they were commended? Did they restrict access to their College Board accounts somehow? Or are we talking about high achieving kids who didn't know that commended was a possibility or that they could amend their Common App with supplemental information?[/quote]

+1. Much Ado about Nothing.[/quote]

So it's perfectly okay for the schools to have made the decision to withhold these notifications?  It wasn't an administrative oversight, or some other type of error, it was done deliberately.[/quote]

No it's not. However, the impact is infinitesimal that it's indeed Much Ado about Nothing.  BTW, I'm not a fan of the TJ admissions process change, the focus on "Asian dilution" and other wokeisms, but this is stupid.  [/quote]

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