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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No ED, no hooks, five T15/ivy admits RD. Top students do fine in RD[/quote]

You hear this but then you see a lot of kids with extremely good academic credentials- like near perfect- who land at something like Villanova [/quote]

Because they do NOT have extremely good academic credentials in reality, and one of these things was likely true of their 1500+, 4.0 uw, took 10APs:

1. Their weighted GPA was 4.4 but that is not even top 10% at their high school and only 3-4 kids get in to elite private/ivies unhooked. People way overestimate rank, or think it does not matter: relative rank matters and is decipherable by AOs.

2. They were at or near the top, but they skipped out on the hardest APs at their high school to keep their spot as Val or Sal not realizing the kids they were "competing" with were getting As in the hardest courses and doing all the rest.

3. OR, they had bad letters of rec. There are some a-hole kids, ask teachers--we know.

4. They had no ECs . Nothing to speak of outside of school that they cared about, and nothing within the school community that they got involved in more than peripherally.

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