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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to redefine your idea of 'top college'. How can you have hundreds of thousands of 'top' students across the country not getting into 'top' colleges? There's no logic to thinking all of them SHOULD have gotten in. It's that your idea of what makes a 'top college' is simply wrong.[/quote]

There are not hundreds of thousands of top students. NMF across the country are only 15000 students. They usually have top grades and ACT/SAT scores to become a finalist along with high PSAT scores. These students have been shut out at many of the “top colleges”. Colleges take who they want based on criteria that has nothing to do with merit. [/quote]

This is ridiculous.  My white NMF kid got into several top schools, and the same for many white and Asian NMF friends (our school has over 50 NMFs).  A few were disappointed,  but MANY got top admissions. Btw, they don't need "top grades" to become a finalist. How you define "merit" is incredibly narrow. You have mistaken yourself for an admissions dean. What you think colleges want is not the end-all be-all of what they actually want. [/quote]

I think you actually do need good grades to become a finalist -- you don't need them to become a semifinalist (based on test scores only).  To go from semifinalist to finalist, they look at your grades and your principal has to vouch for you.
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a former NMSF who always got fantastic test scores but blew off classes she didn't like and did not have a super GPA.[/quote]

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