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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I couldn't sleep last night and was watching 2025 "watch me as I open my acceptances" videos on youtube. 
Many kids getting in to a half dozen top20 schools with a 3.9/1400/33/10 APs from schools in underrepresented states. I'm not even talking about Mississippi but places like Oregon, Arizona, etc. 
It's the same on Reddit.  Kids have these INSANE results (like they're choosing between Princeton, Duke and Penn) and then you read their stats and they have a 33 and no AP exams (despite taking 10 AP classes) and they're ASIAN or white as can be. 
It's freaking night and day.   :cry:  :cry:  :cry: [/quote]

a friend of mine who has worked in admissions for 20 years at a couple T5 schools says this area is like North Shore of Chicago. It's a full tier down from NYC, suburban NYC, NJ, Palo Alto, some LA, and Boston. IOW we're not very special. And this area isn't even uniquely competitive.

I think we suffer from kinda boring kids with good teeth. Well off, hard working, great stats, kinda diverse in the same ways and .. pretty cookie cutter. It's tough for this one little moment in an otherwise super nice life. [b]Our kids have had a more plush childhood that the Queen of England did. [/b]And if this little chapter is tricky -- oh no, they might have to go to Emory! -- really, we should thank our lucky stars[/quote]That is the worst "back in my day" i have ever heard. Elizabeth II had private tutors  and didn't experience any hardship until WW2 broke out. So comparing how UMC kids in the 2020s are doing to the heir presumptive of England in the 1940s is just dumb. Compare how UMC kids today are doing with how Prince George and the other two are doing, ok?[/quote]

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