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[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
- Founder of non-profit
- 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]
Hey OP, how does reading this post by an AO from a too school make you feel?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1l2fzob/take_the_road_less_traveled/

[quote]Do you have any idea how many applications I saw with Chess Club listed? Me either, it would be like asking me how many stars I saw in the sky last night. Model UN, Quiz Team, DECA, band? All great. But I promise you, they don't cause you to stand out.

I read lots of applications from kids who liked to scuba dive, and put a lot of effort into it. I read essays about how life-changing it was to dive the Great Barrier Reef, and comparing and contrasting the Blue Hole and the San Juan in Cozumel. I read enough of them that while it was more interesting than reading about Chess Club and those three Saturdays you volunteered at a soup kitchen, it still wasn't very interesting.[/quote]

[quote]Solo sailing across the Atlantic is more interesting than a coding competition. Fighting fires on your small town volunteer fire department can absolutely be more interesting than an expensive summer program at a local university.[/quote]

[quote]I remember one [admitted] kid who had grades and test scores in the bottom quartile, and had just a single EC, which was mowing lawns.[/quote][/quote]

Not OP, but that link has been debated to death.[/quote]

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