<p>Ive read the full original post and skimmed through the first page or so. Dont know if the issue had been addressed or not, but there is an extremely easy explanation for the many rejections – SAT scores and the unweighted gpa of 3.85. No way will any Ivy or its like will accept a student who is not an athlete/well hooked with sat subscores of under 700. That’s just plain unrealistic. Even with the OPs very compelling circumstances and the hardships he went through. The other issue is a strangely unrealistic sense of safeties – an ivy and a very popular school in the safety range? If this was done with the charter schools guidance office - that counsellor should be ashamed.</p>