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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just for kicks, please list the basic stats (or whatever else you want) of schools that your kid should have statistically gotten into but didn't.

I'll start:

School: Syracuse
GPA: 3.81 unweighted (DC private)
SAT:  1510[/quote]

I’d reject this kid too. Why would they be applying to Syracuse??
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They spent the time and money to apply. Assume they want to go there.[/quote]

The money for many is trivial. The time, also.  A few tweaks of an essay.  For a school like Syracuse, when you get to the 18th college on your common app and you have a couple of free ones to go, why not just apply?  Silly, but AO's know this game.

The strong but not T15 private colleges have to play this game, too.  You don't think the AO's at BC, Wake, USC, Northeastern, BU, Tufts, Emory, etc. can't sniff out who is really interested in the school from someone like the OP? [b]They track pixels on your email, time spent on their portal, engagement with webinairs, history of your high school, visits, SAT bands who have been accepted before, etc.. They have an entire software system set up to analyze demonstrated interest and likelihood of attending- and it is only getting more sophisticated.[/b]

When you get to the next tier below- GWU, Miami, Syracuse, TCU, SMU, Santa Clara they usually can't be (and aren't) that picky.  In OPs case, the AO in charge of the file sounds like they should get a bonus.[/quote]

Can you say more about this? What do you mean they track pixels? How can they tell about time spent on their website?[/quote]

If you google SLATE, Salesforce Education Cloud, you'll see. The pixels are one of the oldest ways to track someone.  There are more sophisticated ways, but pixels are the easiest.  You would be amazed and appalled if you had a look behind the curtain at how this part of admissions works.[/quote]

They can tell if you open their emails and click links in those emails.[/quote]

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