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[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]

She’s fantastic but the thing is, lots of kids are just like this. In NoVa, the top 20% of the class is similar.  My kid was similar and took a full scholarship at a school DCUM makes fun of. Because as a UMC white kid, there was just no hook. Too “privileged” for an assist, too middle class to have connections or invest a ton of money into becoming a recruitable athlete. [/quote]

What struck me is the guidance counselor saying she was extraordinary.[b] Not in NOVA. M[/b]y kid had better stats and was not top of the heap. He applied to one ivy for giggles - rejected of course.[/quote]

She was in exburban Texas, though. [/quote]

Yup. People in Texas are clueless.. Look at the moron they have as Governor[/quote]

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