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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three paragraphs summarily explain her rejections.  Twenty years ago, she wouldn't have applied to these top-tier colleges and accumulated a hoard of rejections.  Twenty years ago, she would have been happy to matriculate at UT or ASU.

1.  Ms. Younger wrote in the applications about her history of depression and anxiety to explain the two B’s she earned during her sophomore year.

2.  Ms. Younger’s father attended the University of Oklahoma and her mother went to Montclair State University in New Jersey. She has no connection to the faculty or alumni at any elite school, nor did she hire a test-preparation coach or a private college counselor.

3.  Her school serves McKinney, Texas, a fast-growing suburb 30 miles outside of Dallas. In a given year, about half of the school’s graduates enroll at four-year colleges; most attend public universities in Texas, Dr. Cranmore said. He recalls two McKinney graduates enrolling at Yale and one at Princeton over the past decade.[/quote]

"She is now ranked 23rd out of 668" at a high school where only half the graduates go to a 4-year college doesn't make her a "star." 
I'm sorry if someone told her otherwise. She was poorly counseled, and should've applied to more colleges that occupy the wide space between USC and ASU.

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That puts her in the top 3% of the class, and she got a 1550 on the SAT. A student like that is applying to Ivies even if they won’t get in.[/quote]

Not at a second-rate high school. [/quote]

I got into an Ivy from a second rate high school![/quote]

And you applied in 2022?[/quote]

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