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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re your last sentence, OP: your child will absolutely be accepted to schools that do not have insanely low acceptance rates.  A couple of pointers from recent experience:
- there are tons of students with your child’s stats.  
- as terrific as he undoubtedly is, he is one o[b]f tens of similar thousands [/b]
- he is wise to make a plan.  Create a brutally honest and balanced list of reaches, targets, and safeties that he would be happy to attend 
- acceptance rates are such that reaches for all means just that - reach for ALL regardless of stats 
- he should thoughtfully prepare a strategy for ED, EA, RD and rolling 
- he should identify the teachers likely to write the best LORs and ask them early
- he should provide his guidance counselor with information to include in the very influential guidance counselor letter
- he should be prepared to create applications that not only reflect his achievements and ECs but that also convey to AOs who he is as a human being and why his presence on a campus will add to the campus as a community
-he should take comfort that the dream school and top 25 concepts are a fallacy. There are tons of schools in this country where he can be happy and thrive. But he’s got to do the work to find them, and not be influenced too much by rankings or the perception of others 
- he should be humble and realize that hard work is everything, no one is entitled to anything, and positivity is infectious, vs the understandably negative feelings he sounds like he is experiencing.  Get energized, chin up!
-also remind him that this too shall pass. [/quote]

there are no "tens of thousands" 4.0 10+AP 1500+ applicants.[/quote]

Actually, there are 16,000 NMSF. And many more commended. They not be all 4.0 10+AP 1500+, but I bet most of them are[/quote]

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