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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are his ECs? Favorite subjects?[/quote]

EC: Top player on high school sports team & outside sport as well, volunteers with the special olympics and officer at the best buddies club at school. Works as a coach and referee. Favorite subjects are the social sciences (AP Gov, history classes). Favorite subjects tend to be very teacher-dependent. One year it might be math and another year it's history. [/quote]

ECs are weak -- sports don't help much if not an athletic recruit.  Try to get him a substantive summer experience, perhaps by volunteering in area of interest (i.e. working on a political campaign).  Also needs some leadership.  Is he a member of any clubs where he can run for a senior position or student government?  [/quote]

I’ve seen kids with these ECs and 3.7/3.8uw and 32/33 get into Wake / Tulane/ uMiami and SMU - using an ED option and listing humanities major.[/quote]

Other than for engineering, which is its only direct admit major, Waks doesn’t consider major.  As for all schools, Naviance/scoir is typically the best for school specific admission stats.[/quote]

Most schools don’t consider major but they [b]read[/b] your application with the major in mind. If all of the boys from your HS are Econ and you’re history, that might matter.

Esp with a weaker EC profile.[/quote]

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