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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are hundreds of thousands of high school seniors applying to college with a 4.0, perfect or near perfect SAT's, 10 plus AP's with 5's, college courses taken in multivariable calculus, linear equations, upper division chemistry, etc.

The hundred thousand plus students are competing for at best 50-60 thousand slots at top colleges. So much more goes into a successful applicant.[/quote]

Parents,
Let’s be real—there are not “hundreds of thousands” of high school students who are two or three years beyond BC calculus. That might seem normal in this area, but academic deans at two different very competitive private schools (including non-DC boarding school) told me point blank by that there are fewer than 20k or so students who graduate that ahead each year across the country.

The real issue is that college admissions care less about your kid ending up in BC calculus or linear algebra than the people on this board.  Some kids don’t have access to the advanced coursework, and colleges will not ding them for that. Our kids are killing themselves to max out on certain advanced curriculum when they would are better off investing time in ECs. (My kids are guilty of the former and refuse to listen.) Let’s be realistic about the fact that there aren’t kids taking complex analysis at the top privates. Yet, kids from top privates get disproportionately admitted to top schools.  Overindexing on stats seems like a waste of energy. [/quote]

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