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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of this ramble?[/quote]

DP. Sharing of a pragmatic view of this years college admissions experience at a good school (dominated by the dominant race) with many excellent students as evidenced by the number of APs taken and the number of National Merit Semifinalists.  The take away is not to be too dreamy eyed and shoot in the foot, especially if you are a parent/student of middle school or high school.

If you don't have kids or you are a know-it-all, then of course the original post is "ramble".  The day is long.  Save some attitude for the rest of the day.[/quote]

Anyone who follows this board or the news or talks to a college counselor or looks at the CDSs or reads the accepted class profiles colleges publish already knows this stuff.

That’s why people are calling it ramble. OP isn’t adding anything new except their own shock that high stat kids who take a lot of APs are not that interesting to elite colleges.  [/quote]

You'd probably be surprised by how "clueless" many parents are. Plenty of parents went to good colleges ranging from their flagship state university to the Ivies and zoned out after graduation and don't really start paying attention till kids are in middle of high school and all that time they think admissions rate are still what they were when they were in college.

I am not rushing to criticize OP for his post, and I find that band of people jumping on him silly and judgmental. Many of the college/high school threads are dominated by elite public/private schools and we frequently get comments from disappointed parents commenting if their DS/DD (or neighbor's kid) had gone to a more average high school they'd have gotten into the college of their dreams. But OP's post shows that's not a safe assumption at all. And it's fair to have a post pointing this out. Going to Blair over Whitman likely does nothing to increase your child's chances of a top college. [/quote]

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