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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three paragraphs summarily explain her rejections.  Twenty years ago, she wouldn't have applied to these top-tier colleges and accumulated a hoard of rejections.  [b]Twenty years ago, she would have been happy to matriculate at UT or ASU.[/b]

1.  Ms. Younger wrote in the applications about her history of depression and anxiety to explain the two B’s she earned during her sophomore year.

2.  Ms. Younger’s father attended the University of Oklahoma and her mother went to Montclair State University in New Jersey. [b]She has no connection to the faculty or alumni at any elite school, nor did she hire a test-preparation coach or a private college counselor.[/b]

3.  Her school serves McKinney, Texas, a fast-growing suburb 30 miles outside of Dallas. In a given year, about half of the school’s graduates enroll at four-year colleges; most attend public universities in Texas, Dr. Cranmore said. [b]He recalls two McKinney graduates enrolling at Yale and one at Princeton over the past decade[/b].[/quote]

Not sure what you’re really trying to say here but all what I bolded should have made her more desirable to top schools for good reason, not less. [/quote]

I don't think so.  There are even more underprivileged with more outstanding credentials.  She preformed and directed plays but I think to get into the lost she wanted to have to have win signiricant awards and written the plays yourself.

That list of schools is ridiculous.  Anyone that feels slighted over any rejection at that level is delusional in the first place.[/quote]

With those stats and ECs, she would be in if she had taken a DNA test and realized she was a URM[/quote]

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