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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, basically OP’s kid had good grades, no material extra-curricular and no story that they could articulate that made them standout from other academic bots.  Reasonable summary?[/quote]

Grades and test scores are how most of the world selects its undergrads, and I think it takes away an enormous amount of stress from families. You know where your kid is likely to get in, based on their high school grades. It makes life easier.

My oldest kid's safeties were UMD (our state school), McGill and St Andrews, which he got into based on grades alone. He has autism and did not have any extra-curriculars to speak of, and eventually chose a different US college, but we were so thankful to have decent safeties he could rely on. McGill relies SOLELY on grades and test scores and apparently UMD accepted him largely on the same.

By far the most inequitable part of US college admissions are the extra-curriculars - some of them are incredibly expensive to keep up and stand out in. It's a racket by an industry of youth sports and youth arts, and the American higher education system is complicit. My second child has gone quite far in her main extra-curricular, so we are playing that game, but I don't like it.

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