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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THEY DO NOT CARE, DC is one and done 1580,  NMF, all 5 on AP, did not get in top 20[/quote]

Impossible to know what happened here without GPA, AP # and ECs.  [/quote]

Sure .. UW4.0, most rigorous, all AP/IB +magnet, Ok EC presidents of 3 clubs - related to major [/quote]

Must have bad teacher recs.  What happened?[/quote]

UCs don’t even accept teacher recs.

Some people on here seem desperate to hang onto the belief that the American system is just and rational. Sometimes that desperate need to justify an unjust system descends to the point that people assume some kid they don’t know must be defective. It’s appalling.

They’re all good kids. It’s a bad system. Highly-qualified kids fall through the cracks all the time. [/quote]

I am happy with holistic review even though DC has high stats.  Most of time it's just and rational, but only if you are willing to consider applications holistically.

Taking UC as an example, they don't take test scores, and don't take recommendation letters.  That eliminates one standardized factor, and one highly subjective factor.  By isolation, it's only logical to deduce that there is a red flag in other parts of the application.  PP may not even realize what it is, but it's there.

College results do not define the kid, so the kid is never defective.  Regardless the college results, the kid will most likely be successful in the future.  But the application has some defects in it for sure.[/quote]

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