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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harsh comments on this thread. Didn’t read them all

To the OP, I think college acceptances are a big farce. We pretend like if this child just had diff ECs or something else her outcomes would have been different.  I know two kids admitted to Ivies this cycle that are very average (no leadership, hard working but not brilliant). Why were they admitted? Because they come from rural communities and are economically disadvantaged according to the college’s formula. That gave them the boost to get admitted. Kids from the DC region are on a whole other playing field. It really opened my eyes that admissions is a joke and we are pretending that our kids have some control over the process. [/quote]

[b]Strongly agree. There is nothing wrong with OP’s profile. What’s wrong is a corrupt admissions process that favors rich people through ED, athletes and often legacies and more.[/b] No one should be so invested in affirming the current admissions process that they blame this child, especially with racist Asian stereotypes. OP’s kid will do great at any of the colleges she was accepted to. W&M and Pitt seem to have many happy students! OP, I suggest you have this thread locked and stop subjecting yoursef and your kid to these insults.[/quote]

[b]My brother joked that he should have moved to Wyoming for a year before he started this with his kids and they would have gotten in anywhere. He’s probably right.[/b]

The bottom line is there are thousands of students applying for about 1,000 or fewer spots at some of these schools. Princeton comes right out and says they reject hundreds of students with perfect SATs, that there is no way they could admit all of them.

When my high achieving son was rejected over and over, it was frustrating because all he had ever done was everything he was supposed to do. Perfect grades, great scores, ECs, letters, blah blah blah. None of the schools will give a tangible, direct answer to why he ends up in the “No” pile. There is a lottery to it all.

Tell your daughter to keep her head up and make her choice her new home and she will thrive there [/quote]

Nope. I know a brilliant kid from Wyoming with an extremely impressive profile who didn't get into any T10s. Ended up a superstar at a flagship honors program (OOS w/ full ride), had a great time, graduates this year, and going to the top program in his field for PhD (fortunately that's in Europe so he doesn't have to worry about science funding cuts). Undergrad is mostly what you make of it and these superstar kids will do great wherever they land as long as they embrace the opportunities they have instead of wallowing in disappointment.[/quote]

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