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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he doesn’t have the grades and rigor, the business won’t get him accepted.  Agree with others it is best addressed in essays.  [/quote]

Whay PP is trying to say is that essays get read only after your child has crossed the threadhold of min GpA and test scores. If they don’t pass those hurdles no one reads the esssys. Obviously being a URM or first-generation is a plus. The average application gets less than a six minute read at a small slacs. It’s even less at large university. The colleges hire by-the-hour readers to assess the application against a checklist for gpa, test scores, urm, first generation, athlete (usually comes in a different route), Questbridge, extraordinary achievements, etc. Only after that culling do the successful applications go up to the admissions officers for your particular region for a first read after which more are culled and so on. Ask your college counselor about how to approach this. They can be if help by flagging your son’s achievement to visiting reps to the smaller schools. They can also help by writing a great letter of recommendation but some schools don’t even read letters of rec anymore (Virginia tech, for example). It’s very much a numbers game for many schools. You need to aim for those smaller schools tgst might be interested in your son’s unique profile. You high school college counselor should be able to help. I disagree about private counselors. We used one to hone essays -no they didn’t write them as some allege-they just bat about ideas and make suggestions. Good luck![/quote]

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