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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the whole article, but here is the lede:

“ Kaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.

She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High School near Dallas and will graduate this spring with an unweighted 3.95 grade-point average and as the founder of the school’s accounting club. Along the way she performed in and directed about 30 plays, sang in the school choir, scored top marks on the tests she has so far taken for 11 advanced-placement classes, helped run a summer camp and held down a part-time job.

“She is extraordinary,” said Jeff Cranmore, her guidance counselor at McKinney High School.

Ms. Younger, 18 years old, was cautiously optimistic when she applied to top U.S. colleges last fall. Responses came this month: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern all rejected her.

“I expected a bunch wouldn’t accept me,” she said. “I didn’t expect it to be this bad.””

It says she’s going to Arizona State.[/quote]

And here is where I stop reading. [b]These schools are all so different. It's the shotgun approach.[/b] Glad she found a nice place to land.[/quote]

:roll: The average 12th grader in Texas doesn’t know that these schools are all “different.”

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And that's the point. The applicant is average and someone should have set her straight before she consented to this story. [/quote]

Very strange story.  Why did the WSJ choose to profile this student who sounds great but hardly a shoe in for any of the schools she desired?  I don't get why they used her as an example of what they are claiming.[/quote]

Exactly!!!  The editor is out of touch of what is needed for ivy admissions. [/quote]

So what is needed for ivy admissions?[/quote]

More than this student offers even though she is outstanding.   They want you to to top of the class, top of the EC you do with awards, top athlete, top donor, etc.  It is extremely competitive.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting some Bs here and there or not being the valedictorian, but that does not set you up for admission to those very elite schools she listed in the article.  [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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