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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid had 1580 SAT/36 ACT.
Salutatorian. Private HS in Texas. Basically maxed out GPA with 10 APs at 5.

Great ECs.

Denied at H,P,S 
Accepted Vandy, Duke and Oxford.[/quote]

This is crazy. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford is such a crap shoot even with these stats….so frustrating.
Where is you kid going between Vandy, Duke and Oxford?[/quote]
None of this is crazy. This person could’ve gotten rejected more than a decade ago. Just having a good score isn’t unique- a lot of people have good scores with course rigor. [/quote]

+1 Parents don't grasp this until their kid experiences it themselves.  These schools are rejecting 95 out of every 100 applicants (it is actually probably more like rejecting 97/98 out 100 if you take out the  spots that are essentially reserved for athletes, kids of donors/legacy and questbridge).  Your outstanding kid is competing with literally thousands of other equally qualified students for a couple of spots.   [/quote]

Im the parent of the kid denied at H,P and S and accepted to Vandy, Duke and Oxford.
The frustrating part for him is that little sister just got in Stanford, same major, worst stats. 1550/35 top 3% but not salutatorian and quite frankly, worse ECs than her brother. [/quote]

DS was rejected from all of the Ivy plus schools and ended up at Georgetown.  His younger sister had a worse GPA and SAT score but got into Princeton.  That's why this admissions game is a crapshoot at the very elite schools.  Your DS had some great choices - which one did he pick of the three?[/quote]

DP. Everyone laments how weak boys are these days, but at the top levels they are extremely good. But they do tend to congregate in a handful of majors - mostly STEM and business. But all of the selective schools strive for a 50-50 balance. So it's hyper-competitive for boys looking at engineering at Princeton, Stanford, Rice, MIT, Georgia Tech. And it's also hyper-competitive for business - Penn-Wharton, NYU-Stern, Cornell-Dyson, Michigan-Ross, Berkeley-Hass.

Girls have a definite advantage in these fields in these schools. Most of the smart boys go into these fields and it's a Mad Max world for them. But there aren't as many smart girls choosing engineering or business. And with everyone striving for a 50-50 balance - as they should - it's a different space for male or female applicants.  [/quote]

Does this mean that DD (1570, 800 math, 4.0/4.5, top 5%, top math is Calc AB which is the highest math at the high school) has a chance at those business programs despite not having much in the way of business ECs?[/quote]

What electives & ECs does she have? You’d be surprised - there’s usually a story/major lurking.[/quote]

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