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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid had a 4.0UW at TJHSST, a 1580 SAT, double digit number of APs with 5s on all the exams, state-level academic awards, club leadership, varsity athlete, and didn't get into HYPSM.

Should I call the WSJ?

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Agree 100%. There are so many of these "average excellent" students like the subject of the article with all the grade inflation in HSs nationwide, and the vast majority won't get into the Ivy League.  Straight A's, solid extracurriculars and top test scores just don't cut it for most students. My daughter graduated TJHSST in 2018, had a superscored 1600 SAT and was also a 2 sport varsity athlete with first or second team all conference honors (but not good enough to play either sport in the Ivy League D1) and was likely in the top 10% of the class at TJ.  She had an excellent guidance counselor at TJ who gave her good advice about her chances and how she should present herself to the colleges she applied to.  She too was shut out of Stanford and the 3 Ivys she applied to but she wasn't surprised and took it in stride.  Still she had a fantastic outcome and was accepted to Duke, UChicago and UVA Echols and is now a few weeks from graduating from Duke w/a great job waiting for her.  She wouldn't have traded her 4 years at Duke for ANY of the Ivys at this point. Outside of the covid year, she loved her 4 years at Duke and the group of friends she made there.  [/quote]

Congratulations to your daughter but with all of the changes in admissions such as TO, emphasis on recruitment of first-gen and/or URM students, increasing #s of applications, etc. the high school class of 2018 admissions aren’t relevant.[/quote]

so many posters here do not grasp the sea change in college admissions in just the last two years.[/quote]

That inequality has widened in the past two years significantly? I agree. [/quote]

perhaps i should have been more specific. colleges appear to be much more intentional in composing a class, paying more attention to where the future change makers may come from in society. or that leadership can come from more than varsity athletes. sadly it took a pandemic and a video capturing the murder of George Floyd to push admissions offices to shake up their criteria.[/quote]

they better move fast. This is the last class year they have until the Supreme Court strikes it down [/quote]

And you actually believe that. God, you're precious.[/quote]

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