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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, [b]MIT is a reach for everyone.[/b]

My super high stats kid thought their super high stats (like perfect SAT score and almost a 5.0 weighted)  would help them get into MIT, CMU, GATech etc.. Nope.
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Not really. If you won IMO gold, MIT is actually a target (not safety).[/quote]

Please stop with this. And stop saying Emory or U Mich are safeties. Even if statements like this are true, which is highly debatable, they might apply to 100 kids across the country. The Top 25 national universities, and yes, even the top 15-20 LACs are crazy tough admits in RD. Kids get their feelings hurt all the time when a school they thought they were locks for gives them the Heisman in RD. All
these schools are building their classes at that point and your 1550/4.5 weighted is not nearly as charming as you think it is. Do yourself a favor and find 1 or 2 schools with a 30+% acceptance rate that your kid could live with for targets. Lehigh or William and Mary, for example. (Nova people don’t kill me.) Same for a true, almost open enrollment school for a real safety. Indiana, for example has a super high acceptance rate but people love it and it has many respected programs. Build your list properly and then do all the prestige hunting you desire. It needn’t cost a ton more in app fees. [/quote]
It’s not wrong for you to do what you’ve described there but only because you have never seen anyone who is truly outstanding.[/quote]

You must not be that outstanding person because the point of my post is that if there are kids for whom MIT is a target, that approach is of absolutely no value to the overwhelming majority of kids, so [b]your comment is worthless[/b]. Even on this board where everyone’s kid is 1550+ /4.5+weighted/10+ APs, which is almost an equally absurd baseline for discussion. [/quote]
Gaining admission to Ivy plus only matters to a very small proportion of students obviously. So yes, the comment is worthless to you if you’re not in the running.[/quote]

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