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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is owed Harvard. Do you understand that you are competing globally for 2000 or so spots? Tell me when you looked at the acceptance rate did you think of another outcome ? I’m trying to understand why you are so surprisEd.[/quote]

One reason is that many of us parents are GenXers who went to T25 schools and have cousins who did. I was waitlisted at MIT with only a 3.8 UW GPA, a 710 on my math SATs and no serious extracurriculars. I have cousins who went to HYPS schools who probably had weaker stats. The new standards are something of a shock.

But I think another reason is that even schools like Harvard know they’re in fierce competition with the University of Texas at Austin for kids from Texas. A fair number of kids who get into both UT and Harvard probably pick UT for financial reasons. Harvard admissions people know any Texas kids they reject have a great public flagship. So, they may be a little extra tough on applicants from Texas. [/quote]

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