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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mainly just a venting post so bear with me but this is getting pretty ridiculous with the waitlists after the deferrals.. seems like so many of our kids are getting strung along. I, like many, have a kid hoping to major in CS. CS is his innate gift and he is truly gifted at it but these schools don’t seem to see that. He is accepted somewhere (definitely not top 50) so he is probably heading there but what on Earth is going on with all these deferrals and waitlists??? Who is getting in to these places??  He is a white male, 1580 SAT, UMC, straight A, multiple AP, highest rigor, multiple award winning, dedicated volunteer hours, write ups in magazines, articles in Wired… What else to they want?[/quote]

There is nothing social about his stats, this is all academics. Colleges and Universities want students who display leadership, social commitment and bring something to campus to make it a better place - not just students who will get A's in class and spend the rest of their time in their dorm rooms playing video games. The kids getting into T50 have those stats PLUS are captain of a sport, president of a club, leader of a student group. [/quote]

While this is generally true, I’d say there is room for introverted, brilliant kids who show potential to use their smarts to detect something that causes a certain type of cancer. This would be evidenced by research with published papers ( I know a kid who is first author on a paper published in a high impact factor journal), presenting at conferences or winning awards at ISEF, etc. [/quote]

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