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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely agree with OP. I think the expectations when you have a kid with a 4.4 1560 SAT and great ECs and personality  is that they will have tons of options at top schools (humor me) because your kids stats exceed the 75% benchmark everywhere. Naviance told me he was a "match" with every top 10 school- including all the ivys!  They had Georgia Tech as a "safety".   The reality is he got into very few schools - only the very very safeties and even got rejected at some of those.  It's shocking.

Its a combination of those top programs not having hardly any growth in size and seats in decades, more and more kids applying (TO), SAT "prep" classes raising scores (my kid's score was first time, unprepped), and aggressive affirmative action biases.

My next kid is more in the 1350 range [b](I do consider this average at least for our county)[/b] and Id never apply to any Ivy for him - and the safeties that rejected his brother for being too high will more than likely accept him. Irony huh. The top stat kids non urm kids are not being well served by the current landscape, it's a debacle.  But that said, I'd never want my 1350 kid to go to Princeton because it would be too hard (I would think) and he would not thrive but so many fight for it in any circumstance that many truly gifted kids are edged out.[/quote]

Oh, you consider it average.  Why didn’t you say so in the first place?  That must make it so, then.  Sorry.  Montgomery County average is about 1180 and Fairfax is about 1200.  Neither has and average anywhere close to 1350.  And no local county would be higher.[/quote]

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