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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is in an MCPS magnet school. He has many AP's (4,5), highest weighted GPA and 4.0UW, taking the most rigorous math courses ( he was done with core math requirements by 9th grade) and now taking rigorous electives from 10th grade. He has math school leadership roles as well as teaches in the community and his church. For ECA's, playing piano and won awards and performed at major events. He is very interested in the top schools such as MIT and Princeton for math. He understands and we understand that these are reach schools, but coming from a magnet school where so many kids are strong and have excellent stats, what can he do to improve his chances? As parents, we want to make sure we are doing whatever possible for him.[/quote]

You didn't share your ethnicity.. Here's what I'd do.  Research all the kids from this area that map to your DC's ethnicity/gender that got into MIT, Stanford or wherever he wants to attend.  Find out what they did?  Most leave an electronic trail through websites, awards, scholarships, etc.  If you know any of those families, reach out to them and find out what they did.  Even if you dont' know them and they are the same ethnicity, reach out to them.  They may be able to help.   [/quote]

The digital trail is curated except when it is news. They might win a prize (and that is reported in a website), but they outsourced their work that got them the prize (and that is not reported).[/quote]

Hence my suggestion to find the families and talk to them.[/quote]

Which family is going to tell you that they were not kosher and massaged the application and ECs? :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

They are not going to tell you how they cheated but will tell you what "their son" did..  You can figure out which part of that is kid vs. parent.  [/quote]

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