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<p>Well, it looks like you didn’t make it to UIUC after all? 
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<p>In all honesty, your SAT/SATII numbers were somewhat low and you got in almost certainly due to extracurriculars. It’s always tough to gauge the value of ECs here on CC since a lot of posters turn small school-wide achievements into monster accomplishments; working under another system made evaluating such ECs doubly hard.</p>
<p>I must confess that I, too, underestimated the important of ECs; fortunately, my son had done enough in his shorten early-graduation high school years to also impress at least some of the admissions committees.</p>
<p>You’re now officially a kid going places; maybe it’s time to take on a more positive ID than SoHopeless?</p>
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<p>He was undecided but leaning toward Brown over the weekend. He’s actually at Brown right now for both a general presentation and a math/science one – if he really enjoyed himself during this first visit, he may be sold on them. He still has a few weeks to make a final decision.</p>