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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this thread devolved into people who dislike private school kids bashing on private school parents.

Typical DCUM drivel. I bet with our anonymity that Jeff provides here, half of you would STFU and be too chicken chicken s**t to look me or my kid in the eyes with their 1500, near perfect GPA and tell them to buck up because their privilege is ending

Sorry (ok not sorry) I can afford private school. [/quote]
eh.. my public school magnet kid 1580 SAT also got shut out.  4.77 WPA, and 5 on 10 AP  exams.  Clearly your privilege isn't working for you.
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Your kid got in nowhere?  Is she/he taking a gap year?[/quote]

DP here. My friend’s daughter got shut out with similar stats. She is half Asian half white. While she had top grades, she did not have amazing extracurriculars. Of course she had a long list of achievements but nothing to make her stand out.[/quote]

This is what I'm seeing all over social media. Long lists of achievements but they are all 'common' and 'typical' achievements that most others with their stats have.

The kids getting accepted are the ones who are young entrepreneurs and those who have done independent research/internships on their own.

DS's best friend's twin sister has ok stats. She's a very middle of the pack, mostly A & B with a C or 2 student. She was part of several clubs but had no leadership positions. She played 1 year of a sport but not varsity. She wasn't part of theater, band, symphony, or chorus. She has awards but nothing super unique that I know of. What she does have going for her is that she started an LLC to sell homemade slime. She has a business website that she runs and she's even expanded to have a warehouse distribution site with employees who package and ship the slime for her. It's crazy - she got into Yale, Penn, & Princeton.    [/quote]

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