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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a junior who has straight As, highest rigor, 1500+ SAT, 2 varsity sports that he should be captain senior year, summer internships, academic clubs and competitions but no national or international recognition in anything.

He is such a hard working kid. I thought a 1500 would be good enough but he is trying to get 1550 on his SAT. Not sure how big of a difference 1510 or 1550 is.

I have seen some superstar kids get rejected from all the top schools and making me nervous.[/quote]

Sorry for being very direct and maybe harsh: all unhooked well rounded kid from public schools have about 0.1% chances to get into famous schools like Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford.
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You should be sorry for being inaccurate. Every year our run-of-the-mill public high school of 2000+ students in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb has 2-3 unhooked well-rounded kids going to HYPS and 3-5 to the rest of the Ivies/t15. Your "0.1%" is a gross exaggeration and is meaningless without context anyway. And your "public schools are trash" bias is showing.[/quote]

2 unhooked out of 2,000 is 0.1% exactly how much the post...[/quote]

Are you assuming *everyone* from a public high school is applying to college, much less a t15?? You must be living in a bubble. 50% of the 2,000 have no business attending college. They can barely read and write with ACT below 19! And the other 40% would be happy to go to any college in Texas. At our public school, if an unhooked well-rounded kid is top 5% in their class (i.e., ranked top 25 within their class of roughly 500), they would be applying to t30 schools around the country. Among these 25, around half typically would go to UT Austin and A&M, while the rest would go to t30 with several ending up at HYPS. It's hard, but not 0.1% hard. You can't define 0.1% with the "general population" as the denominator. If you do, then the chance of a random private school kid would be less than 1% too. Which is why I said the context isn't clear in my previous post.[/quote]

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