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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown: Rejected
UPen: accepted
Harvard: accepted
4.6 GPA
11 APs all 5s
1540 SAT
Great EC[/quote]

These are the same stats as students rejected from Emery and Rice.  [b]Does it all boil down to ECs? Essays that catch someone’s eye? Recommendation letters?  I don’t view it as a lottery but a very subjective process.  [/b](Although congratulations to your DC & hoping she has a wonderful college experience!)[/quote]

Yes, and yes. Getting into the schools with the lowest acceptance rate is NOT about "perfect stats."  Tons of kids with perfect stats get turned down and kids with imperfect stats get in all the time. If GPA/SAT were the basis of admission it could done by computer. Really really good GPA/test scores get you to the next round and that is where the holistic admissions process kicks in.[b]  And that is the essay/ECs/letter piece. Those are essential for the most in-demand schools.[[/b]/quote]

Also agree with a pp that it's holistic in terms of variety. There are only so many top stats stem kids with a string instrument ec they'll accept. You're better off with a less common humanities focus or something else that differentiates you from the pack.[/quote]

Including home region and background and parental status (first gen/legacy) and sporting ability.[/quote]

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