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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is he a white male from this area? If so, he's a dime a dozen. It's a bummer but it sounds like he has a lot of good choices.[/quote]

That was my first thought too. "Is he a white preppy boy?" They've already got those.[/quote]

Well my AA son with the same and even more states also did not get in last year. He did, however, get into Northwestern, Berkeley and a great crop of others. It is what it is. On to the next.

Really helpful if people would look at the trend of YouTube videos where current college students petition to look at their admission files. The reasons they thought they got in NEVER match why they got in. In fact, all the but the VERY best 5% of students are often stunned at how mediocre admission people thought they were. It's eye-opening and blows everything that people talk about on these posts out of the water. It's luck --period. Black, white, smart, whatever. It's luck.[/quote]

It’s interesting you say that given your child was accepted into several top schools. Maybe he applied to 20-30 to get into the ones you mentioned?

My high stats kid was shut out of top public schools. Maybe we should have tried more due to luck but I also think my kid did not have the hooks / story. Yet another athletic kid that doesn’t play D1 is not interesting to a school.

Seems more than luck is at play when a kid gets into multiple Ivies or the kids who get into ivies also get the Banneker/Key scholarship. The admissions people are seeing SOMEthing in those student profiles. [/quote]

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