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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else facing a lot of disappointment during this cycle? DD got into a couple target schools + most of her safeties... Rejected or WL from the rest. She was (imo and told to us by many others) a great applicant - High stats, great ECs + essays, LORs... Her interviews all went very well, especially JHU. She applied to JHU EA and the rest RD, and we're from NOVA. Intended major is BME (biomed engineering).
 
Stats:
4.0 UW/4.7 W GPA
1570 SAT (800 M, 770 R&W)
14 APs, all 5s

ECs:
- A few regional awards (STEM)
- 200+ volunteer hours @ local hospital
- Founder of non-profit
- Research w/ prof at T30
- Competitive summer program for BME
- Lots of community service

Results:
JHU EA - Deferred -&gt; Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Brown - Rejected
Dartmouth - Rejected
Columbia - Rejected
Duke - Rejected
UVA - WL
Cornell - WL
CMU - WL
UNC CH - WL
VT - Accepted
W&M - Accepted
Lehigh - Accepted
UPitt - Accepted

DD is incredibly upset and so are we... JHU was her dream school but she relied on UVA + CMU as well. Anyone here confused and facing a similar situation?We all were convinced that DD had it in the bag - Worst of all is that many of her classmates w/ lower stats and worse ECs have gotten into a few of these schools.[/quote]

So your DD got rejected or WL at schools that are ALL under 10% acceptance rates (Ok CMU is 11.4%, not much better).  UVA is 9.3% if applying RD.

That is how it works.  For the life of me, I do not understand how someone with such high stats can continue to not realize this (year after year after year it happens).  She was rejected/WL at all REACHES.  And accepted at her Targets and safeties.  That is literally how it works, when your Reaches are all basically single digit acceptance rates.  You are very likely to be rejected/WL at all.

So you get her excited about the acceptances she had.  She knew going in these were are highly rejective schools, so she shoudlnt' be surprised 
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