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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong.  35 ACT, NMS, varsity sports, leadership, same summer job since freshman year of HS, did not get in.

Keep telling yourself it is the same, but is is absolutely not.[/quote]

Which college specifically rejected this kid outright? Name the school. [/quote]

UVA, VT, also UNC and UMI (we live in VA).  Thought all of these were targets.  Waitlisted at Vanderbilt, rejected at Ivys[/quote]

Wait, who has UNC and Michigan out of state as “targets?”  Those are lottery schools for anyone.[/quote]

This.  This is the problem. People seem to think if they are aiming for Ivies but know they are very unlikely to get it, then these other universities must be the real targets. In reality these were the reach schools.

I think both sides of this thread are onto something. On the one hand, by sheer numbers admissions to top universities seems hopeless. But OTOH this is caused by peoples outsized expectations coming off a generation of rampant grade inflation and watered down SAT scores. A 1450-1550 SAT score today would scale 80-100 points lower a generation ago. So parents are looking at scores that they thought would be shoe ins for these schools based on their own experience and bringing that forward to now.

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