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Oh, we aren't worried about Columbia as a reach because his stats are out of range.[b] He's towards the 75th percentile for reading and math, 25th percentile for writing,[/b] and his GPA is fine. Plus he's taking a ridiculous amount of AP classes (5 right now; he's taken 3 already and gotten 5s; he's signed up for 5 more next year), and doing great in them. I don't think they'll reject him for stats, they'll reject him because it's just so competitive these days. Everyone's applying and it's really a bit of a crap-shoot.[/quote]

Wait-that sounds like he won't have a shot at any of the above mentioned schools. What am I missing.
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Why would that mean he has no shot? His scores are &gt;750 in Reading and Math, his only weakness is Writing (700...), which is the least important part. I seriously doubt another 50 points or whatever would help him that much.

[quote=Anonymous]What school does your DS go to that you can say that Chicago's EA rate is 50%? Their overall acceptance rate this year was NINE percent. EA rate would have to be hire, of course, but not significantly so -- 20%-ish? I just don't believe your stats.[/quote]

W School at MCPS.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/1LOZMCo.png[/img]

Granted, this is commutative over a number of years. I don't know what the stats were this year.

[quote=Anonymous]OP, your child sounds wonderfully gifted and driven towards his interests.  I do not know why you assume that he should not reach for some of his other reach-y (Chicago being one, of course) schools as well.[/quote]

Don't worry, he's applying other places too. We were just wondering specifically about Chicago - both I and DH have a lot more experience with reach-y schools closer to home.[/quote]

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