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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It matters.  
My child applied with equal As and A minuses (no Bs) and very strong extracurriculars and did much differently in top20 admissions than classmates who only had one or two A minuses.  [/quote]

You don’t know the reasons why one was accepted and one wasn’t.  I assume you didn’t read his classmates school records or essay or any part of it.   They aren’t looking for AI Robots who show perfection in all classes and tests.   [/quote]

hey, how nice of you to insult a kid.  my child had outstanding extracurriculars-head of 3 main school clubs, sports captain, top internships, NMSF, etc. All the stuff.  still did not overcome kids who had a higher GPA (fewer A minuses).  if you are applying from a  top private you are compared directly by GPA to classmates. I find that DCUM tends to vastly overestimate who can get in where from private school. the reality of our experience as well as what is supported by the data given out by college counseling (ie what it took to get in places the past 3 years) is very different from the DCUM advice. [/quote]

NP: No one was insulting your kid. The fact that your kid was the head of 3 school clubs, a sports captain, had internships and NMSF STILL doesn't tell us what the others had. First, heads of school clubs and sports captain are throw aways. (Before you get upset, by "throwaways" I generally mean that schools will think "what else do you have for us?" Those are very normal activities that hundreds of thousands of kids have).

NMSF is NBD (because the SAT is the high stat they are looking for - your kid gets a high enough score, that's what they want in that kid's case...the award for it matters little). It is like saying my kid was an AP Scholar when you also already disclosed the AP scores. The college can already ascertain if scores are high enough for them or not. So the SAT score is great, but the actual NMSF award is nothing.

Second, your kid could be the most outstanding kid in the world but without knowing exactly what the other applicant had: first gen, compelling theme or story, different type of job, better essays, different ECs which the school desires, etc. - you can't simply say GPAs are the deciding factor. [/quote]

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