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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She refused to take APUSH this year. She is now telling me colleges will look down on it and rule her out. She will have taken 7 APs total. She is unsure about major. Do you think she is correct? Not aiming for top 30 schools, top 50 maybe as reaches. Grades are excellent, SAT 1380 (she will likely retake once more)[/quote]

No idea why you think your DD has any insight into this matter

Frankly, it sounds like maybe she's feeling pressure to attend a top-rank college, and she's (consciouslt or subconsciously) trying to sabotage herself and make excuses to get out of that pressure. I suggest investigating and working on that angle. [/quote]

This is a good point. College admissions are so high pressure on high performing kids— who have highest possible rigor, 1500/34+ and panic that they might get an A- or B+.  Even the highest rigor with amazing grades and test scores are lottery applicants for many T25 schools.  It may be easier for some kids to blame being rejected from a school with a sub 10% acceptance rate on not taking one course than it is to accept that even the strongest applicants have no guarantees.

It was just so much easier back in the day— when UNC was my safety (in state NC) and it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t  get into Duke, Davison and Wake Forest (which I did). That was the college list. Now, all of these schools would be lottery given my stats back then. They were all lottery for my kids (although UNC was OOS for them) and they brought better scores and a lot more rigor to the table. Somethings gotta give here.

Rather than generalizations, it would be interesting to hear from parents of kids with OP’s kids profile (sounds like 1350-1400 SAT, 4.0UW, decent ECs, strong but not highest rigor? Is that right OP?)— who applied this cycle or last cycle— not in 2020.  Where did they land? (And give the specific school— VT Arts and Sciences and VT Engineering have different admissions profiles).

OP— for your kid, I would consider an ED1, ED2 strategy that puts them at a high match/target (for UMC girl, 50% SATs/GPA). Try to apply to at least on rolling schools as soon as applications open.  Apply EA where you can so you have an idea how admissions is going and whether you need to adjust in RD.  Consider SLACs ranked below 20 or so, especially if you are full pay and your kid is undecided. And make sure she actually likes her likely and low target schools and would be okay attending them.

Good luck—

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