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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel so bad for kids today. They take 9 AP classes and their parents still panic and fret about their futures. No wonder this generation is so anxious.  Please take some deep breaths and relax, OP. Your kid is going to be just fine, if you let them be![/quote]

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OP, you need to chill out. It seems your DD is more rational than you. Your kid will have 9 AP, sports, EC’s, a 1350 and you are panicking? [/quote]

I think the poster telling me my dd looks like a lazy no-good kid shooting way too high because of the "easy" APs she took really got to me. She's very independent, organized and hardworking, she also takes a class at a local college. Her thought was that she wanted challenging classes but also to do well in them, considering she also has sports and ECs and knew APUSH would create a hurdle to general success. At our school many kids just pack on the APs and get Cs in them, or do great in hard APs but do not do any sports/ECs. I trusted her judgment on this until she questioned it saying maybe schools will mind I didn't do APUSH. I think now I am afraid colleges will reject her based on what that poster thought of her: she's a lazy kid who doesn't push herself. To me she's just a well-balanced kid who knows herself, does very well, not stellar perfect, but very well, in everything she does and she does a lot. To me that is valuable but I guess colleges just want absolute perfect most everything from SAT scores to class rigor. I thought top 100 for sure she could get into places.[/quote]

Nobody is saying your kid is lazy and do nothing. People are saying the college admissions landscape is brutal right now. But it sounds like you and your kid found a balanced path through HS that worked and she knows what she wants.  So, she will certainly also find a similarly balanced path through college and accomplishes her goals.

Honestly, current USNWR ranking are garbage.  And PP is right. They don’t align well with selectivity. Focus less on “T50” or “T100” and more on schools that she likes (social and EC fits) that fit her academic profile (both in terms of strengths, and her GPA, rigor and test scores). If she has a balanced list of colleges she wants to attend, it’s very likely some with accept and some will reject and she’ll end up with a few good options for her. And if they work for her, the ranking, especially USNWR ranking,  should be secondary— or tertiary. College #106 might be a better fit that College #63. And that’s fine. Unless you are focused on things like Pell grants, college #106 might even be a better school— all around and for her.

Also, don’t overlook SLACs. At least consider whether a smaller school would be a good fit. They often do well with kids who are undecided and want RCS/college community involvement. [/quote]

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