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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS with a similar profile (with over 1000 hours of volunteering including leadership role, research assistant with Prof at a local university, national competition but no top 3 award, act 36, WGPA 4.9+) was rejected at Duke after ED deferral. Both waitlisted for freshman and offered sophomore transfer at Vandy RD. In at Wisconsin, UVA out of state, UNC out of states. Waitlisted at Michigan EA. 
Did not apply to others. [/quote]

Would bet $ that there was an issue with rigor: there was at least one if not two core areas where the student did not take the highest level course available at the high school. 
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Interesting. You may be right. DS did not take the world language class in the senior year. Still had 4.9+ WGPA, but it may be that Duke and Vandy care about the entire world language sequence? No idea. Kid is very happy that he is in at top publics OOS and an Ivy (what DCUM calls one of those “second tier” ivys). Also waitlisted at another Ivy ( second tier again) and an Ivy+. We are in MCPS. [/quote]

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