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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional.  UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean.  Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service.  If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up.  (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W.  [b]Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little toughe[/b]r because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin.  Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.  [/quote]

It'd be tougher to get into Georgia OOS than Duke or Vanderbilt?  Really? [/quote]

Yes because all Georgia cares about these days is actual stats.  GPA and SAT/ACT.   Your ECs aren't "stats" and the giant state schools don't have time to ponder 40,000 letters of recommendation from the scout leader.

DC was deferred EA OOS from UGA with far better stats than OP and was admitted to a top 10 private school ED -- with killer ECs.  [/quote]

Same PP here.  I did not realize UGA and UF are not test optional.

OK then OP, you should encourage your son to focus on either state schools that aren't AS competitive -- our neighbor LOVE U. of South Carolina, for example -- or focus on private smaller schools.   But you have to be able to put together a good story for the more competitive private schools, ranging from Duke to University of Charleston and everything in between.  Clemson, Furman, Rhodes, U. of Tennessee is fun, SMU will accept him for sure.

Anyone posting on here who says you have no chance at a Wake or a Vanderbilt does not understand the power of a Central American Eagle Scout who interned with a member of Congress and has solid (if not "top") stats.   They missed the key features of your son.

Also -- for private schools -- make SURE he writes a cohesive essay telling them 'who he is'.  Too many kids blow this off.  It doesn't matter to a Michigan or a Texas but it can make the difference at a Wake.  [/quote]

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