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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one should be surprised by his results, even in a non-COVID year. My kid with a perfect SAT score and three perfect subject test scores etc. only applied to three tippy top schools a few years ago and expected to get rejected, and she did, along with every single other high stats, high rigor, non-hooked kid we know. And she and some of them had some really high level and interesting ECs. Playing violin for 10 years isn’t going to excite a school if you are recruited for the orchestra nor is varsity or club volleyball if you are not recruited to play.

I’m not sure why anyone thinks high stats are synonymous with merit. Nothing in the list he presented should have made him or anyone else think admissions to any of those top 10 schools was remotely likely to happen, because he had nothing special from their perspective to distinguish himself from all the other bright kids who applied. It makes me sad that he didn’t realize this. Tons of great SLACs or top 40 schools would have been delighted to have him. [/quote]

How do you know that he did not distinguish himself.  This is the fuzzy logic sick racists use to discriminate against Asian-Americans. Oh, he must not have a personality or something to distinguish himself...oh, he must be a boring person with no original thought...oh, he only has book knowledge.  Meanwhile your ilk produces as asshat like Donald Trump.

He is special. More special than all those hooked individuals who are given admission in the top schools who have nothing of substance to show for themselves. [/quote]

Club and varsity volleyball while playing and instrument and obviously having stellar academics makes Charlie far better than the "cookie-cutter Asian who only studies." Stop your racist dogwhistling.[/quote]

I am the PP the two of you are responding to, and I think you are both insane. Nowhere did I say or hint this guy was “a cookie-cutter Asian” nor did I suggest he or his activities were unimpressive. All I know about the kid is from his Tik-Tok video where he lists what I assume he considers to be his most impressive credentials. They are impressive! They show that he is an extremely smart kid who has kept himself busy in the arts and sports while pursuing an extremely rigorous academic schedule.  And he seems funny in the video.  The problem for him with admissions at top schools is that there are thousands of other kids in the country, Asian, White, and other, with an almost identical list of accomplishments and scores. The year my DD got a 2400 on the SAt, so did 500+ others, along with 1500+ perfect ACT scorers, and that just counts those who did so in single sittings. Think of how many kids scored almost that high or super scored well and you get to many thousands, a significant percentage of who also do well on all the other quantifiable stats and apply to the same schools.

I personally do not believe that top schools should be expected to fill their schools only or primarily with high achievers like Charlie or my DD, especially given that both have what it takes to be successful anywhere they go. But the main point of my post was to point out how sad it is that high stats kids and families overestimate their chances at tippy top schools year after year, get disappointed, and and don’t explore other schools they might end up loving. I am a huge fan of UMD though, where I expect my youngest will end up, and I would bet he will be very happy there along with the huge number of other gifted kids in his class.

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