I read the Atlantic piece last night and found it fascinating. I thought the answer was pretty good. My kids are Asian, which, given the Harvard case, is kind of a strange place to be these days in the college admissions game. My son, who’s applying this year, is a million miles away from the Asian STEM nerd stereotype. He has pretty good but not great grades and SAT scores and is targeting mostly LACs in the top 50 range but nothing at the tippy top. There’s that moment in late junior year/early senior year where you take stock of where the kid is and you decide on the range. What has surprised me, reading CC and particularly reading the Atlantic piece, is that I find I am really grateful we are not at the top of the range and that we never aimed that high. If you have a child with credentials like those cited in the Atlantic piece, both you and your child have worked really hard and made many sacrifices and then you get there and you find you have much more company than you ever imagined and nothing is a slam dunk after all. I’m really shocked sometimes to read the stats for kids who’ve been turned away by the top schools. Although there may be a little bit of entitlement, there’s also a lot of genuine bewilderment and heartache, and I am glad our son hasn’t had to deal with that.