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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2100 is not good enough for top 10 universities. There were plenty of kids from my child's HS with 2300 or better SAT scores, in the top 15% of class with tons of ECs and national recognitions and awards being rejected by top 10 universities unless the applicant happens to be URM. [/quote]

Absolutely wrong. My own DC got into a Top 5 with a score of exactly 2100. Granted, this score was in the 25% percentile for this Top 5 university, but still well within the range.[/quote]

Maybe there were other factors such as legacy, athlete or other hook or being in the top 1% of the class etc. Applicant with 2100 SAT score with no hooks, not URM and so so GPA/ranking will NOT be admitted to the top 5 university unless the kid is URM.[/quote]

Nope. DC is a white girl from the DMV suburbs - two anti-hooks, if anything. DC is not a legacy or an athletic recruit, either. DC does happen to excel, at the national level, in a particular passion. Building a class with kids with many talents is the very definition of "holistic admissions," my friend.

WTF is wrong with you? You have already been told similar facts many times.[/quote]

I'm calling BS on this.

PP is careful not to detail the so-called "passion" that DC excels at.  That is either because PP is making it up, or because the "particular passion" is so rare that revealing it would compromise anonymity (e.g., the DC is the daughter of a famous person (unlikely) or a celebrity (e.g., Jody Foster going to Princeton).  I think it is probably BS, but in either case unspecified exceptions don't mean much.  No one denies that there are exceptional cases.  The averages don't lie.[/quote]

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