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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in at Harvard! Rejected from all other ivies  she applied. Was down down down after opening all the portals and Harvard was the last one she opened.

She has no hooks, white girl, cheerleader, lots of volunteer work, president of student council, does part time work at a fast food place, most likely in top 10% of her class for GPA, 34 ACT. We are in MCPS.

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Congrats. My sense is this is the type of girl that won't fall apart getting B's at Harvard. They need more students like her who won't complain about the new grading deflating structure.[/quote]

That structure is just a proposal from the faculty, hasn’t been adopted.  There may be grading modifications but no Ivy is going to want to expose the kids who enter needing some remedial help.[/quote]

I don't understand this honestly. Isn't everyone who enter a top college have top grades in relevant AP exams.

Are there Top colleges accepting students who didn't take the AP exams and done extremely well?

Frankly if they are accepting kids without prefect AP sores then thats ridiculous. The vast majority of kids who apply to these colleges are very privileged. These kids have access to all kind of resources imaginable. If they can't even do well on AP tests frankly they don't deserve to be admitted. It's such a low bar to cross given all the resources they have.[/quote]

The kids who need the extra help generally are not coming from a place of privilege, instead the complete opposite.[/quote]

This, please, they wanted the student body pres of a large school,[b]the 34 is low though[/b],all of you can now stop complaining about other T20s accepting low scores! [/quote] 34 is at the 99th% so how is that low? Prior to TO where kids felt compelled to only send in 35/36, a 34 was solidly in the mid range for the Ivies - typically it was 33-35. The Harvard lawsuit showed that the floor was a 33 so anything above that was considered the same...[/quote]

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