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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of posters complain about how their kids are "bad at taking tests" and therefore have a low SAT/ACT score but decent GPA.  Colleges are now allowing test optional applications to address this (thanks to Corona mostly).   Great for those parents/kids!

What about kids who didn't do well in 9th and 10th grades academically but got their acts together in 11th/12th?  Say they end up with a [b]weighted GPA[/b] in the 3.7-4.0 range but end up with a 1550+ in the SATs in junior/senior year.  Basically, a good trajectory.   Assuming these are male, White or Asian kids that want to do Engineering/CS with no legacy/hooks/sports.  Are they pretty much fuc*ed? Will any "top school" touch them?

Would like to hear about schools that really look into the application and select such kids as well as personal experiences.   Not interested in "you can get a great education at any school" posts, please.

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I totally agree, there are so many families that are MC/college educated parents but either do not follow the current cultural trend of helicoptering or there are issues in the family-like medical or mental illness, substance use, cheating and so on where the parents are not helicoptering and very smart kids who also do not follow the trend of competitiveness can totally slack off and go through school, with Cs and Bs and when they finally figure out at 16 they want to do well in school their time has passed...its really sad our kids are the generation of no second chances...zoning out in grade 9 or 10 , wrong text message sent can basically define your life for a long time.....[/quote]

Except that's not really true.  Not being able to attend a Top20 school is not 'defining your life'--the vast majority of people don't  get to do that.  The US has so many roads to a good college, and you can go to a mediocre school and get into a top graduate program.  You can go to community college and transfer into world class institutions.  Really it's one of the most flexible higher ed systems anywhere.[/quote]

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