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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS with 3.82 (high rigor); 33 ACT and non-Stem /business /Econ major (true humanities major) with strong pointy related ECs.
Private selective non-DMV high school.

He’s finished with his RD apps. 
Deferred from both NU (ED) and Tulane (EA).

He’s got a bunch of decisions from large flagships coming in next month. Concerned he falls into that middle space and may get dinged everywhere else.

Thoughts on chances for these reaches:

Colgate
Bucknell
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Williams
Wake
Emory
Vanderbilt
Wash U
Rice 
Brown

Thoughts on chancing him?

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Based on what I saw in the last 3 senior classes @ my DCs’ independent: Williams, Vanderbilt, Rice and Brown would be hard no. The rest might happen but longshots.

Friends’ daughter was dinged @ a T10, then deferred EA @ Tulane, so made a hard pivot to Emory/Wake/WashU for ED2 and admitted.

But who really knows. [b]Know a top stats kid rejected @ a T12 in ED1, then rejected at a T20 LAC in ED2, and accepted to an HYP in RD. [/b]

GL to your DC. [/quote]

Same…possible but don’t count on it.

Things are so crazily unpredictable these days though - nothing would surprise me.[/quote]

I’m the PP. Should’ve underscored “don’t count on it.”

The kid was legacy @ HYP but kid, parents, counselor decided that it was still too much of a long shot these days and picked a school where the DC seems a shoo in based on our school’s placement record there. DC’s stats were stronger than many of the prior admits as well as other kid applying ED1 in class. (FWIW, school doesn’t rank but the kid probably 1 or 2 in class). That school also loves full pay as is this kid. Outright rejected. Everyone was in shock. So they picked a LAC with similar specs for ED2 and again rejected.

Then decided WTH, throw in a Hail Mary  RD @ HYP and hope for best with schools that were targets back when list  first drawn up.

So while never say never, even kid’s parents would probably say they would have recommended same route as the RD acceptance still seems like incredible luck. [/quote]

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