| All I know is that when D was applying 3 years ago, on the Yale site, there was shock and dismay and incredulity after the rejection/acceptance letters went out. Kids with IB and otherwise credentials were being accepted, and kids with higher stats and AP were being rejected. I remember one of the acceptees saying that she was expecting to be rejected, since her IB projected grades weren't as high as others, and her EC's weren't all that good, and her SAT's, while respectable, weren't stellar. She couldn't believe she was accepted when others were rejected. And please. don't start the "it's all about fit" argument. I understand. But I remember at the time we voiced the opinion that if D had taken IB she might have been accepted. That was before we really knew that much about the difficulty of college admissions. Our district had just started IB, so D was ineligible, and we still think that after reading all the posts of those accepted, that IB had it hands over AP that year at Yale. |