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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who makes it look easy. He always makes the team and excels academically. He is hoping for an ivy.

I have another kid who is borderline good at everything and a third kid who is too young to tell. Not everyone will go to a T20 college and that is ok. My middle kid will probably go to a school like BU or Penn State. Your kid can go there too.[/quote]

One of the problems is that your references to “BU and Penn State” are still top 60 colleges out of 3000…BU has a 14.4% acceptance rate…so no, most kids can’t “go there too”.

Everyone’s frame of reference is completely skewed.  So, when you say not everyone will go to a top 20, you turn around and still only think top 50ish schools are worthwhile.[/quote]

Agree with this!  LOL.  This lady feels like BU is slumming it but it's crazy hard to get into.  Frankly almost as hard as several of the Ivies. 
This area (DC) is so insane. [/quote]

Pp here. My oldest is in high school. My middle kid is only in middle school. I have been looking at acceptance rates and my oldest is looking at all colleges with sub 10% acceptance rates and I’m confident he will get in.

My 7th grader has a lot of time. From our high school, it looks like BU is around 25-30% acceptance and Penn state is higher than 50%. BU is my oldest kid’s safety.[/quote]

Seems like you are completely missing the point of the thread...or I gather you are fine with the competitive nature of the DMV.
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I was feeling nervous from reading these threads about high stat kids getting rejected. In actuality, a lot of kids get into good schools. I mean if your kid has a 3.0, no but [b]if your kid has almost straight As with rigor, 1500+ SAT and good extracurricular activities (not just sports), your kid should get into a T50.[/quote][/b]

Folks...this is lunacy...only the top 1% of all HS students score 1500+ on the SAT.  There are several schools in the T50 where you can get accepted with stats much less than this (with basically no ECs)...and many in the top 100.[/quote]

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