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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a junior who has straight As, highest rigor, 1500+ SAT, 2 varsity sports that he should be captain senior year, summer internships, academic clubs and competitions but no national or international recognition in anything.

He is such a hard working kid. I thought a 1500 would be good enough but he is trying to get 1550 on his SAT. Not sure how big of a difference 1510 or 1550 is.

I have seen some superstar kids get rejected from all the top schools and making me nervous.[/quote]

Sorry for being very direct and maybe harsh: all unhooked well rounded kid from public schools have about 0.1% chances to get into famous schools like Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford.
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You should be sorry for being inaccurate. Every year our run-of-the-mill public high school of 2000+ students in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb has 2-3 unhooked well-rounded kids going to HYPS and 3-5 to the rest of the Ivies/t15. Your "0.1%" is a gross exaggeration and is meaningless without context anyway. And your "public schools are trash" bias is showing.[/quote]

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