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[quote=Anonymous]This is the best and most useful post in this thread:

[quote=Anonymous]You are doing the math wrong because you don't seem to understand how admissions works. They don't rank kids by ACT/SAT and pick off the top. They don't, and they never did. Kids with much lower stats than your kid will get into those 90,000 spots you mistakenly expect belong to the top test takers.

The most important thing to realize is that your child should be focused on what they want to study and which of the thousands of school out there have great undergraduate departments in that area. [/quote]

The second most helpful is the one telling you to become very familiar with Naviance scattergrams to gage your chances and develop a proper "reach/match/safety" balance.

Now, this is the worst post in this thread, unhelpful, bitter and total BS to boot.

[quote]What you're missing is that university admissions are not based on a meritocacy {sic} in this country.

Diversity is everything here. Which means that someone who checks a box on a form that you child doesn't check will overtake someone like your child who has way better scores.[/quote]

Let's please ignore this and stay on the OPs topic otherwise this devolves into the same old tired debate.  Let's be helpful to the OP who seems sincere.

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