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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are still not able to comprehend that with a mid-year GPA from TJ 4.4X, SAT close to 1600, very good ECs, my child got rejected from all Ivies applied, waitlisted in a few T20 schools mostly private and UVA. We are trying to understand what went wrong. Really bothering us for the last couple of months how this can happen with this profile. Was GPA too low?. Did rigor matter at all?. They take the hardest courses but kids from other schools get into T20 schools with less grade or rigor.[/quote]

What is your kid’s relative ranking in class at the end of their junior year? I saw somewhere the GPAs and corresponding rankings of TJ students. If memory serves, the tippy top kids have 4.6x, and there’re lots of 4.5x kids (I think at a place like TJ, there’re lots of very smart kids with very similar profiles, so your relative ranking may drop a lot with just a slightly lower GPA). So unfortunately if your kid is not within the top 20% or top 30%, getting into an Ivy or T20 might be tough.

In my son’s decent private high school, only the top 5% kids academic-wise get into the T20 or T30 colleges (if we don’t count the athletic recruits).[/quote]

Hmm. This is why everything is so high school specific. At our high school top 40% that’s into T 25.[/quote]

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