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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are a lot of parents of high scoring kids on here who cannot comprehend that the score is not the be all end all.  I get it.  You feel threatened.  My own kid had a difference between score and grade point (score much higher than grade point).  I would feel threatened, too, but I do think there truly are kids who are bright and would do well in college, despite not having a 1500+.  The evidence is there.  Schools have been doing test optional for many years.  I get it that it would be great to deny and pretend that the test score is supreme.  It just isn’t with all of the prepping that goes on.  If you want an example, look at FCPS AAP, which has become completely watered down because people Prep their kids and go to “certain” psychologists for IQ tests.  (Yes, my kid was in AAP without prep and an IQ test.)[/quote]
NP.  The uncertainty factor.  Moreso than feeling threatened, perhaps there is a feeling that the rug has been pulled out from under them.  Whatever level of certainty anyone had about college admission chances pre-pandemic, admission chances are less certain now.  Even conceiving a list of reaches, matches, and safeties is different than it was, with little objective data to rely on.[/quote]

That makes sense.  The thing is that there really are enough college seats to go around.  Just not in 25 particular schools.  People need to look beyond those schools, too.  The kids that I’ve heard about who got “shut out” applied to very few, if any, real safeties or failed to demonstrate interest when the school said they consider that.  Someone who applies to every single Ivy is prestige hunting (they are so different). Some kids feel they are entitled to a spot and it’s really just not true, even if you have a 1600/36.  It just doesn’t work that way and hasn’t for many years.  The schools are emphasizing other things.  I truly get your predictability point, though.[/quote]

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