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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.

[b]RD is when my son was accepted to Ivies [/b]and T10s last year. No hooks.

He didn't ED anywhere.[/quote]

And yet my kid applied to 4 Ivies RD and was waitlisted at all. Not one if  his friends got into their RD picks[/quote]

So.  How would they know if they didn't try? If we heeded that advice, my kid never would have known how successful he would be RD.

You can buy the lottery ticket if you have stats in range for the school---or you can decide not to.  If you don't want to wonder 'what if' and you really would attend one of these schools if admitted, then I think it's worth the cost of the ticket.[/quote]

The stats are one thing - just the price of entry - but it seems like it's much more of a waste of time if your kid just has "standard strong" ECs rather than the insane ones I keep hearing about.[/quote]

Incorrect.  This 'standard strong' stuff is such bullsh*t.  Good recs and good essays with typical activities and 4.0uw (or very close 3.9); minimum 35 ACT is enough for many.[/quote]

Very much agree with this. While I do not doubt that these schools have a high population of extremely exceptional kids, I also think that the majority of kids are just typical American kids living pretty average American lives.

My child was home for dinner most nights (unless they were out with friends or traveling for sports) and had summers free for recreation (no jobs, no research, no internships). The first job they ever had was the summer before freshman year of college- needed to earn college money. My child lived an average American life. There was nothing exceptional about their life except for their intellect and that their personality was pretty magnetic. But none of that could be put on a resume so it was probably the essays and LOR's that conveyed that.[/quote]

OK, but schools with a 5% acceptance rate, that means they pick one kid from a pool of 20 and reject the other 19. If you take a self-selected group of 20 kids who think they are "good enough for an Ivy", the chances are excellent that at least one of those kids will have crazy over-the-top ECs. If they don't choose that kid, for some reason, it's hard for an outsider to understand why.[/quote]

For sure. But what I am saying is that while one should not expect to be accepted to a school with a 5% acceptance rate from an applicant pool of very intelligent students, one should also not count themselves out of the running and not ever apply because they think they are too "ordinary".

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