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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happens every year. Every other kid has 1550+, 4.9 GPA, amazing EC’s, excellent essays.. etc.
There are only so many seats for the thousands of applicants with similar stats.. .

I don’t think there was anything wrong with her application. It just a crapshoot.. luck wasn’t on her side.[/quote]

No, There are not that many kids W those stats. It is certainly not “every other kid” it’s very rare to have those stats.[/quote]
You must be new here. If your kid's GPA is less than 4.0 UW or SAT of sub-1500, you will be told to send you kid to trade school, community college, or a gap year to add something meaningful to their application to make up for their abysmal test score. It's not a rare profile for wealthy kids from urban centers.  [/quote]

1570 is rare. Out of 2.13 million test takers only 4473 score 1570 or higher. [/quote]

Theres more to life than a test score. You know what else is RARE.
My kid's 3x national championship award in their sport.[/quote]

Yes, I totally agree with you. I just get sick of hearing people say someone w 1570 SAT is “dime a dozen” they’re not. Neither is 3x national champion.[/quote]

True but people think locally and don't realize that while amazing there are 5,000 kids with that score and Harvard takes 1600 kids. Or, that there are 27,000 valedictorians and the top 1% SAT (about 1530 and above) is over 20,000 kids.

What is rare is the 1% SAT score along with a state or national championship because they excel along two very different axes. People think local but competitin is natinal, or even global for top admissions.[/quote]

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