Twins offered 1.6 million in scholarships after getting accepted to 56 colleges

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@SeniorStruggling wrote

I am amazed by his accomplishments, perfect attendance, 27 act, many awards. The kid is too bright for applying to many schools that have graduation rates sub 50%.

To be competitive for merit, an applicant should be targeting schools where his/her stats compare near the top for that school. A 27 ACT is not going to trigger much merit award consideration at low admit rate schools. For FA at fully-meets-need schools, a 27 is probably not a competitive score for admission.

I said that considering his supposed stats he applied to mostly schools that should have been backups and safeties and how I think his claim was stupid that people tell him he can’t go to college when at his school 93% of students graduate.

Charter schools in economically disadvantaged communities may graduate most of their low-imcome students, but the students academic abilities/stats are a far cry from Phillips Exeter.