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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As impressive as your DD's profile is, unfortunately there are many kids around here with the exact same resume. Some of them have national and even international awards. STEM is way oversaturated and it is very, very tough for even high stats kids to get into a T-25 these days. It does feel unfair. Of course it does. Hope she gets off one of the waitlists but, if she doesn't, she is clearly a smart, hardworking young woman who will succeed wherever she lands![/quote]

Even in DCUMland there are not “many” kids w that profile.[/quote]

I love it when people say things like this. Perhaps with the insane grade inflation everyone has a 4.0UW, but once you get into like 1570+ / all 5s on the APs the pool gets smaller and smaller and smaller.

It feels unfair because it is unfair. It's not a perspective issue. If you ask any AO from anywhere the last thing they'd attempt to tell you is the college process is fair. It's subjective, it has institutional priorities behind it you'll never know about, and sometimes the AO is just having a bad day or reacts to something benign in your essay. [/quote]

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