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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My honest thoughts? Holy hell that is a huge drop off of the top quartile. Mental health and stress rates for UMC kids are going to explode.

As replies to the OP on another thread whose kid has perfect grades, great SATs and strong ECs indicate - these kids seem to have to be super human as it is already to get into even T50 schools. [/quote]
My kid had super high states: 1580 sat, 4.92 wgpa, 4.0 uw, from a magnet. Got denied at T10.  DC is fine. At a B1G flagship and doing fine.

It was an ego hit, to be sure, but they are fine. Straight As in college so far.

If these kids have mental health issues because they are striving so hard to get into a T10, that is the partly the parent's fault. You should be telling your kid that T10 is not the end all that be all, that it is basically a lottery to get into a T10, especially if the T10 go with what that article describes.

I'm 100% behind giving a boost to low income kids.  I do not support boosting by race, but I do support boosting by income.

I grew up in a lower income house, immigrant family.  Went to a "bad" HS, surrounded by a lot of low income kids.  There were a handful of really smart kids, and they could've used a boost in college admissions, and I would include myself in that. I graduated top 15 in my class, but my scores were still not high enough for T10 at the time. My parents knew nothing about prep or college admissions. I had to navigate it on my own.  I've done alright for myself, but I think  I could've done so much better if I had been given this kind of chance.

A boost like this means everything to low income smart kids.[/quote]

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