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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC just graduated and is going to a top 20 according to the US News rankings.  DC applied to four schools in the top 25, and honestly, I didn't think DC would get into any of them.  Only got into one, but it was one of the top 20.  Full IB Bilingual Diploma, but all humanities at the higher level. 1380 SAT and GPA roughly equivalent to a 3.6 - 3.7 (IB is on a scale of 7).  One very strong EC with leadership roles in 11th and 12th, but no state or national prizes or recognition.  The one big advantage was probably that we're full pay and checked the "do not need financial aid" box!

I think it's such a random thing - as a pp mentioned earlier - one admissions person may love an essay, while another one thinks its contrived.  There's no magic formula here and it's definitely NOT objective.  [/quote]

Wow! Low SAT and got into a US News Ranking T20? Impressed because the stats aren’t great-very average, tbh. [/quote]

URM hook?[/quote]

White legacy?  White donor?  White connections?[/quote]

Donors make possible charity cases. [/quote]

I'm the PP of this post.  Not a donor, no legacy, no connections, not a URM, not first gen.  DC is actually half white and half Asian - so that should've been a disadvantage too!!  Only advantage is that we're an affluent family who can pay full freight. As I mentioned in my post, I did not think for a million years that DC would get into even a top 30. It was clearly a high reach school for my DC.  But we're thrilled of course especially since it was DC's #1 choice.  
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