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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Entry to ivy League stem schools is broken. Too much focus on things volunteering, gpa and not enough focus on stem pre college. For example our friends kid got into Stanford and MIT because he has straight A's and AP classes and good sats but never coded and is learning how to sophomore year. Where as another friend's kid focused all his time ages 9-17 building 20 or so programs and major projects full stack and cloud based programs where he made 50k but didn't have straight A's and AP classes except computer courses so didn't get into any ivy League stem schools. At the end of the day the ivy League kid will be at least 10 years behind after graduation [/quote]
It's a crapshoot.  The kid with coding experience and lower stats could've gotten into a T10.  It's  happened before.  And the kid who got straight As and high SAT scores, all 5s on 10+ APs could also get rejected at T10. That's also happened (that was my DS).

Admissions is an opaque process, and to us, on the outside, it boggles the collective minds that someone like this kid could be denied to places like MIT or Stanford. One would think he'd at least get into GTech and UIUC.  It's insane. The entire college admissions process is insane.

My DS is a dual citizen and is seriously thinking about moving to that other country if he has kids because he does not want his kid to go through such an insane college process that he went through. DS has super high stats, higher than the guy in the OP, and he also get rejected at the same schools.[/quote]

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