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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will not matter how rigourous your child's curriculum is, nor how stellar their ECs, how brilliantly written their essays or how high their SATs or ACTs.  What will matter most is their GPA. And it won't matter whether, as the schools will tell you, whether that GPA has been on an upward trajectory or whether their is a solid explanation why you worked hard for that 3.7 GPA vs. someone with that 4.3.  Looking at the stats of the schools that rejected my DD, she was easily above their average SAT/ACT scores, but below the apparently weighted GPAs of most of those accepted.  [/quote]'

If your daughter is a Caucasian or Asian girl? That contributed to her rejection.[/quote]

Let the ignorance and hate begin. Really people - maybe that's why your kid was rejected - because of hate and ignorance. Maybe you can't hide that. 
Does your kid go to an expensive private school in the south where one AA student is accepted each year? Maybe Georgetown (etc) doesn't think you will fit in their diverse school with very extremely intelligent students from most every country in the world. Maybe hate works against your DC.

My DD is a top student in difficult classes at a top private school and we have no illusions that she has a good shot at the top private schools. She has a shot but she could be rejected by all and it would not be unexpected.
Even my DD - if I tell her she's smart and doing well she is the first to say that she is 'nothing special' which is true. There are a ton of kids who have gone beyond doing well in school who have invented something already for gosh sakes. High test scores are common - perfect test scores are not.

Get over yourselves! [/quote]

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