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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the whole article, but here is the lede:

“ Kaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.

She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High School near Dallas and will graduate this spring with an unweighted 3.95 grade-point average and as the founder of the school’s accounting club. Along the way she performed in and directed about 30 plays, sang in the school choir, scored top marks on the tests she has so far taken for 11 advanced-placement classes, helped run a summer camp and held down a part-time job.

“She is extraordinary,” said Jeff Cranmore, her guidance counselor at McKinney High School.

Ms. Younger, 18 years old, was cautiously optimistic when she applied to top U.S. colleges last fall. Responses came this month: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern all rejected her.

“I expected a bunch wouldn’t accept me,” she said. “I didn’t expect it to be this bad.””

It says she’s going to Arizona State.[/quote]

Because all of those schools have acceptance rates below 20%.  They are all REACH schools for everyone, even someone as talented as this young woman.  While qualified and she would be an excellent member of the freshman class at each of these schools, with acceptance rates so low it's a lottery with her high scores, awesome ECs and well roundedness buying her the lottery ticket, but ultimately 8-9 out of every 10 students at those schools are rejected.

If she didn't want to attend ASU, then she should have selected 3-5 True target schools with 30%+ admission rates 
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