Need Advice-Is this appropriate?

nightchef
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:12:17 +0000

Your daughter was an exception. There are certainly exceptions, but a read of any common data set will tell you they are few and far between. See the under 3.6 thread and others where parents have posted their results for otherwise strong candidates with one weak stat. There are few parents posting what you are–that their kid got in anyway.

You’re really saying that one out of four freshmen at a typical highly competitive school was a recruitable athlete or had some other very strong hook? (Actually more than one out of four, because presumably at least a few of the people with strong hooks also had better-than-25th-percentile SATs.)

That doesn’t sound right.

(and BobbyCT, congrats to you and your daughter!)