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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Step-daughter got rejected from Brown ED. She was pretty crushed, especially as the clear valedictorian and frontrunner of her small private since kindergarten (ran out of math classes to take at school since Calc BC in 10th grade, dual-enrolled at local college for math thereafter). She's also just a brilliant human being in general (and I say this as a child developmental psychologist with teenage children of my own), gifted in writing, speech and debate, acting, and languages. I was a little worried for her application because she didn't have as many activities related to school. She felt discouraged from running for student council after losing an election early in high school and instead focused most of her energy in a few outside activities: rowing, Italian and Chinese self-study, and Shakespeare acting. She didn't exactly verbally broadcast her ED application but proudly and confidently wore Brown apparel, so it was common knowledge that she was applying. She took a couple days off of school after the rejection, not that other students applied but were celebrating their own ED admissions. Turns out that nobody really cared about her rejection in a mean spirited way but some did express their own disappointment for her (and what it might mean for their applications). She ended up at a WASP LAC and is happily double-majoring and studying abroad.[/quote]

When the acceptance rates for Brown and other Ivy League colleges are as low as they are, this kind of behavior is unbalanced. I'm sorry she didn't get in, but more sorry her hopes were so unrealistically high that she suffered such a crushing disappointment. [/quote]

Yeah, I told her dad to be more realistic. it's just that the school has sent other students to Brown recently, both before and after. Most were well-rounded kids whose parents worked at local universities and who did research in those labs. They were pretty high achieving, just not the cream of the crop, taking the highest level classes in each subject. Then again, it could have been that her essays weren't compelling enough. [/quote]

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