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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high stat kid applied to 18 schools, got into no reach, no match, 4 safeties and 1 "if hell freezes over" safety.  He also got rejected from safeties, like VT.

What we found is that depending on your major and your race, the results are totally different and you cannot categorize a safety based on naviance or usnwr or any of that without the major and race/urm status factored. My kid is brilliant- I wont go into stats but they don't get much better. But if you are going into CS as an Asian or white male - it's a dogfight.  I have seen so many posts of all those 18 schools of 1600 NMSF 4.7 GPA kids denied at UMD or VT or other places we all thought were safe for high stats. Not safe.   It was a reality check.  I've got another gearing up to go and my outlook is totally different.   Luckily the safeties have strong CS programs too (as someone pointed out UMD is top 10) and my kid has been given leadership and research positions already because the school sees how unusual he is. He may not be at MIT but he would also not get this sort of early celebrity there.   I think it will all come out in the wash. High stat kids are super motivated and they will succeed regardless, though they will have to fight harder than the ones with the "top" schools on their resume.[/quote]

There are a ton of "high stat" kids out there applying to the same schools vying for limited slots.[/quote]

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