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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]

That is true, but admissions are from a worldwide pool and the “not many in DCUMland” are but a subset of the pool. The pool is actually a couple of hundred thousand kids and they somehow need to get an AO’s attention during the sorting and selection in order to get put into a slot based on each schools institutional priorities. In that context the profile just didn’t stand out.

The OPs kid is a very bright kid but bright is only one factor in the crazy world of top school admissions where the demand/supply imbalance is huge.[/quote]

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