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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I did not read the entire thread, but I hope you are staying positive for your kid. He has some excellent admittances and I would not be surprised if he gets offered a spot at Purdue.

[b]UT Austin, Rice, and University of Washington were never going to happen. Georgia Tech is a toss up, but probably also a "no". [/b]Wisconsin seems like he should have a good shot.

I went through this with my kid last year. You need to be VERY positive about all of his acceptances and remind him why he likes those schools.[/quote]
Huh. Why?? (not OP).

The kid has PERFECT stats. [/quote]
So do thousands of others. (Tens or [b]hundreds of thousands in TO world.[/b])[/quote]

You seriously think there are "hundreds of thousands" of high school seniors with perfect 4.0 uw GPAs AND who have taken 9 AP courses to include AP Physics, AP Calc BC, etc. AND who are Eagle Scouts AND have the equivalent of OP's kid's other accomplishments?  No way. [/quote]

NP here—hi OP. There may not be hundreds of thousands but there is certainly at least a hundred thousand. Public high schools give out 4.0s like candy.  [b]100,000 would still be less than 1% of graduating seniors[/b]. So PP is right that there are hundreds of thousands of stellar students competing for the same spots. And there isn’t just one kind of “perfect.”[/quote]
Come again?  :shock: [/quote]

It’s not less than 1%, but more like 2.5%. There are about 4 million graduating students—and that’s just the US. Point still stands, there are at least 100,000 students as stellar or more so than OP’s kid. [/quote]

By GPA alone, sure.  But you're conveniently ignoring the fact that the student has taken/is taking 9 APs across a range of subjects - to include ones likes AP Physics and AP Calc BC - on top of other achievements (Eagle Scouts, etc.).  Are there thousands of equivalent kids?  Yeah, probably.  But 100,000?  Again, no way. [/quote]

124,335 kids took the Calc BC exam in 2021. 136K took Physics 1, 48K took Physics C: Mechanics, 18K took Physics 2. 
Given that most kids (in our school, anyway) who take BC also take at least one AP Physics class, 100K+ is reasonable.

https://www.turito.com/blog/ap/the-most-popular-ap-exams-every-high-school-students-should-consider
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OP said her kid took AP Physics C (among other tests).  And per your figures, only 48K took Physics C.  So no, 100K+ is not reasonable because less than half that amount took AP Physics C.  Plus, not all of those 48K had a perfect 4.0 uw GPA in addition to the other accomplishments listed for OP's kid.  And this is all ignoring the very high SAT score, which is at least considered - NOT ignored - by test-optional colleges.   [/quote]

OK, you got me. You've completely convinced me that this student is a unique individual, head and shoulders above the rest of the admissions pool everywhere, and should be accepted early to their choice of major at all schools. [/quote]

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