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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else facing a lot of disappointment during this cycle? DD got into a couple target schools + most of her safeties... Rejected or WL from the rest. She was (imo and told to us by many others) a great applicant - High stats, great ECs + essays, LORs... Her interviews all went very well, especially JHU. She applied to JHU EA and the rest RD, and we're from NOVA. Intended major is BME (biomed engineering).
 
Stats:
4.0 UW/4.7 W GPA
1570 SAT (800 M, 770 R&W)
14 APs, all 5s

ECs:
- A few regional awards (STEM)
- 200+ volunteer hours @ local hospital
- [b]Founder of non-profit[/b]
- Research w/ prof at T30
- Competitive summer program for BME
- Lots of community service

Results:
JHU EA - Deferred -&gt; Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Brown - Rejected
Dartmouth - Rejected
Columbia - Rejected
Duke - Rejected
UVA - WL
Cornell - WL
CMU - WL
UNC CH - WL
VT - Accepted
W&M - Accepted
Lehigh - Accepted
UPitt - Accepted

DD is incredibly upset and so are we... JHU was her dream school but she relied on UVA + CMU as well. Anyone here confused and facing a similar situation?We all were convinced that DD had it in the bag - Worst of all is that many of her classmates w/ lower stats and worse ECs have gotten into a few of these schools.[/quote]

It stinks. Hopkins legacy kid here rejected at 1560, perfect grades, ECs, bilingual, etc. Did not expect as many rejections as we got. But lived where they ended up.

I would say just look forward. Make the most of where they will be. No sense going in bitter.

Also, admissions seeing through these “nonprofits.” Maybe yours was impressive and noble, but WSJ and WaPo both have written about this  “founded nonprofit” thing can be a bit of a bogus resume padder [/quote]

Hopkins only has ED, NOT EA. Maybe that was  both pps problems.[/quote]
1. OP came back several times to clarify that she typo'd EA. 
2. It is so weird to me that people have treated that as some kind of gotcha.[/quote]
People are desperate to believe that posters with bad results are lying. If that fails, they insist that the poster has made some strategic error. All of that protects people from having to admit to themselves that the system is f’d up. [/quote]

Sometimes there is an error but as often as not it is just people not understanding or refusing to understand how the actual state of the system and how it actually works. The system isn't f'd up; it is opaque and heavily oversubscribed at the very top but for the vast majority of people it works fine.

What too many kids (and parents) fail to understand or admit is that:

The system is aligned around institutional priorities and what they value, not the applicants opinion of what should be valued.
Top schools are optimizing for reputational and financial outputs, they are not optimizing inputs.
Top student academics look mostly similar and interchangeable.
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