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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else facing a lot of disappointment during this cycle? DD got into a couple target schools + most of her safeties... Rejected or WL from the rest. She was (imo and told to us by many others) a great applicant - High stats, great ECs + essays, LORs... Her interviews all went very well, especially JHU. She applied to JHU EA and the rest RD, and we're from NOVA. Intended major is BME (biomed engineering).
 
Stats:
4.0 UW/4.7 W GPA
1570 SAT (800 M, 770 R&W)
14 APs, all 5s

ECs:
- A few regional awards (STEM)
- 200+ volunteer hours @ local hospital
- Founder of non-profit
- Research w/ prof at T30
- Competitive summer program for BME
- Lots of community service

Results:
JHU EA - Deferred -&gt; Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Brown - Rejected
Dartmouth - Rejected
Columbia - Rejected
Duke - Rejected
UVA - WL
Cornell - WL
CMU - WL
UNC CH - WL
VT - Accepted
W&M - Accepted
Lehigh - Accepted
UPitt - Accepted

DD is incredibly upset and so are we... JHU was her dream school but she relied on UVA + CMU as well. Anyone here confused and facing a similar situation?We all were convinced that DD had it in the bag - Worst of all is that many of her classmates w/ lower stats and worse ECs have gotten into a few of these schools.[/quote]

Your DD sounds amazing to me.  So amazing that I can see why a lot of people on this forum thought you were a troll and these admission results are fake.  You must be so proud of her.  She will do great and have a great time no matter where she decides to go.  [/quote]
OP here, thank you! She has worked so hard these past 4 years, it really makes me upset that she feels she isn't good enough because of the decisions - It's hard to get her to stop comparing herself to her peers who made it into some of these schools.[/quote]

It’s especially hard when you keep doing the same thing. [/quote]
How am I comparing her? By saying that I feel it's unfair that many of her peers who put less effort got into some of these schools?[/quote]

Yes. These schools were looking for a combination of factors that those peers had. Your insistence that your child is a better candidate and that the situation is unfair means that you don’t understand what the school wanted. There is no unfairness here, just you mistakenly thinking that the degree of effort your daughter put in should have automatically resulted in a punched ticket.[/quote]

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