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[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]

LOL.  Demographics? Hook? Legacy?

Rigor matters a lot.  Not only for getting into college and tough majors, but actually being able to handle it.

I stopped worrying about it because my kid was from MCPS STEM magnet program.  Developed apps, was co-author in a research paper, 4.8 wGPA, 4.0 unweighted GPA, really rigorous courses, perfect SAT, 12 APs with 5's, Aced PSAT - NMS scholar, impressive volunteering, impressive ECs.  Wanted to do CS.  He applied to 5 colleges. And got rejected from MIT his first choice (as he had also expected), because he refused to apply to Applied Mathematics etc at MIT instead of CS.   No problem, went to UMD.  Chose it over U.Mich (too cold) and G.Tech (not gender balanced ha ha).   Has done extremely well in college, amazing internships and a plum job offer in hand.

You are going to make yourself and your kid crazy if you start comparing why someone got into college.  Totally worthless exercise.  Thankfully, my DC's stats were so amazing and ECs so impressive  that I never had a moment's doubt that there was any weakness in his application from his side.

MIT chose whoever they wanted to choose and I am 100% sure that there were many applicants who got an offer who did not have his academic or EC record.  But, so what?  I see more and more students from his HS magnet cohort not caring where they get in because they end up doing very well wherever they go, get really great internships and they all are landing in prestigious and well-paying jobs.  And all of them are from donut hole families and so their college is costing them peanuts - and they are using that money to travel internationally with their friends.

The aim is to overall win at life - Health, happiness, family, friends, passion, being a good and giving person and finally success in job/finances.  Not worry about college admissions. It is not an indication of your merit or your worth.  
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