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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been teaching AP for many, many years. Most of my students are the 4.0 unweighted GPA types. They volunteer, are varsity athletes, and they are doing all they can to look good for college. Some truly stand out, but most are very strong candidates. And then college admissions come and the results appear random. The true stand-outs face surprising rejections and the “just” strong candidate got in instead. Here’s what I think: students have to meet a threshold to make it into the “considered” pile at a college. But after making it into that pile, the choice itself appears random. All the kids can really do is get themselves into the pile. Then cross fingers and hope for the best. [/quote] This is basically what Jeff Selingo’s book says - that it is that colleges need a well-rounded class, not that you need to be a well-rounded student. So, you can’t predict that, beyond ending up in the considered pile. [/quote]
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