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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d be interested to hear more details from the last 2 Blair posters if you’re willing to share.  50 percent of Blair magnets students have a 4.0 GPA and about 1540 SAT, so it’s not surprising that most get rejected from the reach schools, even though the kid is so impressive.  What other awards/ECs did your kid have and where did they apply?[/quote]

All the Blair kids- or many, anyway, have a paper with a professor about their summer internship. Mine did and it won an award. But he didn’t have a variety of extracurricular activities - some that he’s been doing for years and loves, but no big awards or anything. In fact he talked about how he kinda does them bc he loves them and not to win the awards. In high school, he refused to do even a modicum of “credentialing” and his essays were about his quirky self and his academic interests- like a deep dive. He isn’t well rounded, I guess, so the Ivies weren’t the right place for him. But he also didn’t get into MIT - one of his reaches- which may have been a decent fit.

In the end, he’s happy where he’s at. He was disappointed at first, but he’s a pretty logical kid and one night just sat down and was like, well- this is the best choice. And he hasn’t looked back and he’s very happy.

The whole experience took years off my life and now I look at the whole process a little differently. He deserved to put a ticket into the lottery of the reaches- he’d earned that- but he wasn’t who they wanted and he’ll be okay! My next kid teeing up to do this is a natural-born credentialer, so I imagine, maybe? but maybe not!, they’ll have a different experience.

It may not be true, but I have come to the realization that kids end up where they’re supposed to. Life is long and college is just one step, esp for magnet kids who, like my kid, wants to go to grad school.

Good luck, OP! [/quote]

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