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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leave her alone. She is just a normal kid going through her senior year  and the application process with her friends.  I think the press should leave Presidents' kids alone unless and until they become adults and voluntarily enter politics.[/quote]

If she were a normal kid she wouldn't be visiting Ivy League schools.[/quote]That's crap.  'Normal' is my kid's middle name and has visited 3 Ivy schools and will apply.  And my normal kid has great grades AND we're middle class.  So there![/quote]

I don't think kids who are "normal" have the grades and SAT scores to get into Ivy League schools.  They're probably in the top .5% of HS kids; that hardly qualifies as normal.  If your kid has a good shot for an Ivy League school then academically they're exceptional, that's what I was getting at.[/quote]

They are competitive schools and you have to be a strong student to be admitted, but "exceptional" to even consider is a bit of a stretch.  The 25th percentile combined SAT score for Cornell is 1970, which is 92nd percentile for all college bound seniors.  In other words, there are kids getting into Ivy League schools who are in the top 8% - not top .5% - and some even bellow this.  The odds are still long to get in, but a broad set of "good" students apply and are accepted.[/quote]

I'd guess the vast majority of kids at the 25th percentile are minorities or recruited athletes or have some other hook.  A normal white/Asian kid with no hooks and a 1970 isn't going to sniff an Ivy League school.  [/quote]

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