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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read from College Confidential that some kids with 1600 SAT and  GPA 4.0 could only get into their flagship public schools. Not sure if every of these people are real. Nor do I think the flagships are necessarily bad. But from what I know about MCPS magnet programs that many kids with high stats only get into public schools.

You can say the public schools are the perfect fit for these students. Which implicitly implies that the good private schools are not good fit for them, even though many of them long to attend these schools. 
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I recall a few years ago our high school college counselor telling us that admissions departments were starting to have a specific staff person delegated to handle all the calls from freaked out parents reading College Confidential and convinced their kid wasn't getting in anywhere. My takeaway was there is a lot of nonsense on that site mixed in with useful info and it can be really hard to know which is which.
Look, a kid who has done nothing in their high school years other than get perfect grades and test scores isn't going to a T10 school because there are so many other kids who have great stats AND interesting accomplishments. And they will be passed over in favor of kids with great but NOT perfect stats who have other meaningful pieces to their application. But that doesn't mean State U or nothing.  Best guess is kids/parents overestimated their chance at reaches and weren't strategic about other choices. But that doesn't mean there weren't other options
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