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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about you, but I'm just amazed at how good these applicants are on collegeconfidential.  There's no way my current UVA kid (senior) would get in today compared to this:

MathMomGA
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Today at 10:16 pm
My DD:

EARLY ACTION DECISION: ACCEPTED!
Planned Major/ College: Double major in Biochem & French, Arts and Sciences

Residency: OOS (GA)
SAT/ACT: 1540 SAT, 36 (36, 36, 36, 36) ACT, both in 1 sitting
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry (800), Math II (800), US History (800)
AP: 16 APs - AP Bio (5), AP Human (5), AP World (5), AP Lang (5), AP Chem (5), APUSH (5), AP Gov (5), AP Calc B/C (5), AP Lit, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Physics 1, AP Stat, AP French, AP Comp Gov
GPA- 3.98 unweighted, 4.68 weighted
Rank: N/A, but received GA Certificate of Merit (Top 5%)
Ethnicity: Mixed race (White/Asian)
Gender: Female
Extras/ Volunteer Work/ Talents/ Jobs- Captain of HS Quiz Bowl team, Captain of Swim and Dive Team, 4-year letterman, club swimming, 200+ service hours, teaching French to elementary schoolers, Student Leadership (2 year program), Secretary of State Student Ambassadors (won statewide competition), lots of honor societies, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, 1st Place at Nationals in Journalism (FBLA), interned with congressional campaign, interned at small investment company, coaching/ participating in summer swim, paid and peer tutoring

Demonstration of Good Character- Very involved in political activism, good amount of peer tutoring

Any hooks? Girl in STEM, maybe

Thoughts on why you received that decision: My daughter put a lot of effort into writing her essays.

Congrats to everyone else who got accepted! And good luck to everyone who got deferred! [/quote]

This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.[/quote]

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