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[quote=Anonymous]OP, there can be the "be careful what you wish for" in these scenarios. A friend's DD was deferred from Duke some years back. One of the parents was legacy and fairly involved in school. The DD had a great record, very similar to your DS, so it was, as it remains in college admissions, a numbers game. Kid and parents hustled and hustled and hustled and DD finally got in during RD. And going to Duke ended up not being such a great decision for the kid, both academically (great grades but maybe not as close to faculty as would have liked) and socially. The dad recently told DH that maybe a top NESCAC or one of the PA SLACs would have been a better move. I would have never imagined that would have been the case due to all the effort put into the kid gaining admission, so was a little eye-opening for me. g Good luck to your DS and hope everything works out![/quote]
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