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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I get what everyone is saying but please stop saying a kid with:

4.0, never less than an A in 7 years
9 APs including the most rigorous sci & math
Strong ECs strongly aligning with academic interest
1550 one sitting
Eagle Scout

is a dime a dozen, HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of kids, SO typical.

No. Not true. Not here. Not anywhere.

OP's kid will thrive because that's who he is and we can all look at this theoretically and say, oh whatever college is fine he'll be a success who cares it's such an honor to go to gmu...

It is disappointing and yes, on some level, unfair how this is all going down.

She's allowed to be upset. You are allowed to criticize her. And I am allowed to call you a clown.[/quote]

[b]No--there are tons of kids with those stats or very close (1550+ and 3.95UW and 10+ APs).[/b]  Once you hit 1550+ the score does not really matter.  There are lots of kids with great stats, due to test prep.  And the "one sitting" does not matter as 99% of schools superscore and Do NOT care if it took more than 1 attempt. And that group of kids is applying to 10-15+ top/elite schools.  When acceptance rates are less than 15-20%, you should assume your kid will not get in and be excited if you do.

Yes, OP kid will (or should) thrive anywhere because they are smart, driven, high achieving.  But the college process has been brutal for several years and gotten worse each year, TO makes it even more challenging.  Smart people know this and prepare.  That means finding Safeties that you ACTuALLY LIKE and want to attend and showing demonstrated interest.  Why apply to schools that you wouldn't actually want to attend?

Yes, be disappointed for a day or so after you get rejected, then move on and focus on what's remaining.  [/quote]

What do you mean by “tons”?   This is an incredibly small pool.  Of the 2.13M sat test takers, 8323 students scored 1550 or higher (according to a Google search). Let’s be generous and agree that 80% of kids with those scores also have 10 APs, good EC’s, and almost all A’s. That brings us to 6659 students.   Let’s say there are only 5 population centers where these kids live (vast oversimplification helping your argument), that means that there are 1331 such students in the DMV.  Total enrollment in MCPS is 160,560 and FCPS is 181K plus.  Dividing by 12 you calculate total number of high school seniors as something like 20K in the DMV (which ignores all other counties, DCPS and private school).  Even using this favorable (to your argument) analysis, fewer than 1 in 100 high school kids in this area will have these stats.  0.7% is rare.  And it’s a disservice to these kids to pretend they are a dime a dozen (even here).

Doesn’t mean they will all get into a T-Whatever college or that there won’t be disappointments galore.   But I am tired of hearing about how these high achievements are run of the mill.  They are decidedly not.  [/quote]

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