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[quote=Anonymous]Highly selective schools are now lottery schools. It's just how it is. You can have 4.0 and 2400 and all the ECs, but you still are not likely to get in. Happily there are other schools, but it's unlikely that your child can get any C grades in HS and be headed to an Ivy. My son graduated HS with 55 college credits & 11 AP grades (all 5 except one 4) & tons of ECs & a 4.20 GPA from a science/tech school. He got a full ride at Maryland, but he didn't get into Caltech (deferred & then rejected). It's all good, but it's definitely important to keep your expectations realistic. I've said this before, but I remember at the selective schools, the question always came up whether it was more important to take rigorous HS classes or get top grades. The respective college admins uniformly responded that it was important to get top grades in rigorous classes.[/quote]
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