<p>^ No, not at all, it was in reference to the first post where evidently someone led an OOS applicant to believe this was a fact. OOS applicants don’t need any more stress. I’m sorry I didn’t make it clear in my post. It may simply be that the applicants that are successful in admissions happen to be in the top 10% a great deal of the time.</p>
<p>Donimar - I absolutely do appreciate your frustration. Your student works hard and everything looks like a match. The instinct is to look for something ‘wrong’, fallen short. The fact is most of the time there isn’t anything. S2 is a second year and the year he applied his best friend was denied, a big head scratcher…in state, top 5%, rigor, double varsity athlete, captain in both, academic honor societies, lots of tutoring hours, teachers loved him so assuming great LORs, etc, etc. Sometimes from our end things don’t add up. I can say he’s at a peer university having a blast and doing well academically, so it all worked out.</p>