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[quote=Anonymous]OP, basically once she has a list of colleges she may be interested in from looking through say the Fiske Guide, then see where she falls with respect to accepted applicants using her gpa and test scores if she has - those are really the 2 most important factors in admission in a typical cycle. If she is in 75th percentage, it won’t matter what her ECs are. If she is in the 25th it likely won’t matter either unless she has a stellar EC or sport that could vault her into the likely admission pool. If the college itself has an admit rate of under 15% (that isn’t exact!) then it is a crapshoot no matter what. My point is don’t worry so much about her ECs and essays and “hooks” (unless you know she has a good one) when just coming up with her initial college app list. Those more
holisitic parts of the app factor in when you are going for reaches or high matches whether because of your personal stats vis a vis the colleges or because of the colleges inherent ones. Right now she just needs to start figuring out what factors are important to her in a college. [/quote]

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