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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gymnastics captain
AND Lead Cheerleader 
AND Math team captain 
AND Debate co-captain 
AND Faculty award for top student in HS

In at two of HYP[/quote]

Other than being good at becoming captain, I don’t see anything stand out in this resume.  Where is the impact?  How many times AIME qualified?[/quote]

DP.

[b]It demonstrates a remarkably diverse skill set. I can’t imagine that schools see that combo very often.[/b][/quote]

That is the point I was trying to make. So much focus on "passion" and "pointy", but plenty of well rounded kids end up at HYPSM.

She did not make it to AIME and is not the strongest math student actually. My kid was in the same grade as her and went to same school for 9th grade before transferring to another HS. My kid also ended up at one of HYPSM and recently got a look at the admissions file. Academic rating was 1 and that was got DC in.

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You're the one who listed the stats of a kid who your kid knew from 9th grade only who got into 2 HYP based on your claiming the kid just had some so so in school activities? So in essence you have no real idea what the kid's stats were or what the hooks were. You have an overview of what you believe the kid did and that's it since the kid applied to college 2.5 years after your kid left the HS.

As for the award...it is entirely meaningless. Marshall/Oakton/Madison have one like that but it is NOT a faculty award. I'm guessing it is the same or a similar one...where it is an optimist club (for adults) award and is NOT given to the "top" student in the HS and it is NOT a faculty award. For example, at Marshall, which is one of the 3 participating schools, 5 juniors are nominated (so a total of 15 juniors get a nomination) and "nomination" means that a single faculty member nominates a kid likely without any basis of knowing if the kid is more or less deserving than others in the school. The winner out of the 15 nominees is selected by the optimists club. There is NO award in FCPS where the "faculty" gives an award to the "top" HS student. It doesn't exist. [/quote]

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