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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in a similar boat. 3.9 GPA at a Big 3, perfect ACT score (36 on all sections), waitlisted at UChicago, WashU and Emory so far. College counselor had called Emory a match/likely for him. [/quote]

What?!!!! What did college counselor say? What school did he get into?

This is such a depressing thread for the parent of an 8th grader to read. [/quote]

OMG do not worry about someone else's college application experience, especially based on two outliers, in the middle of a pandemic.

Sorry, but these are outliers. Most kids get into plenty of schools.

Class of 2020 kid : 7/8 acceptances
Class of 2021 kid: 4/5 acceptances[/quote]

but your kids may be the outliers.  My kid class of 2020 "top" private 1/9 acceptances, and then got in May 1 off waitlist and has been very happy in person this year.  Rejected ED1 and EDII.  Normal smart kid, 3.8 gpa 1480 SAT, nothing outstanding.  it's really a crapshoot these days[/quote]

PP, I'd be really interested in knowing the types of schools your child applied to.  I have a very similar class of 2020 child (yours has slightly better stats).  She was 34 ACT, 3.65 GPA from a well regarded private in another large city (they do not weight or offer APs), ECs were quirky, interesting, and consistent with her interests, but nothing earth shattering, some leadership, but not tons.  Applied to 2 reaches (Top 10-15 LAC), 4 "matches"(well regarded LAC-Top 50), and 3 safeties (large state U and 2 small, more regional LAC).  She was accepted at all except the 2 reaches and received merit awards at the 3 safeties and one of the matches (we are full pay so no real incentive to offer us $$ at matches).  We visited every school she applied to except the large state U.  She signed up for every school's Instagram feed and opened their emails.

I just wonder if your counselor was not realistic enough (especially if your child had no hook, like mine).  Also, I tend to think they do better if they aren't applying to all of the same schools as their classmates. I think my DD was pretty different than most of her classmates (although I do know her friends also applied to one of her reaches --and has much better stats-- and was waitlisted).  We had also hired a private counselor, who had a very similar list to the school counselor, although was also pushing her to apply to an Ivy with a very specific program tied top her interests and ECs (which she did not want and did not think was realistic anyway).

I'm sorry your child got only 1/9 and I'm glad it worked out.  I know from my D's friends that there was a lot of waitlist movement last year and I suspect there will be this year, too.
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