@DebmomNY What do you consider high statistics?
My son and his friends who were accepted to Tulane EA all have 34 to 36 ACT, perfect or almost perfect grades with 10+ AP’s, etc. They all have the opportunity to go to higher ranked schools if they want, or to go to lower ranked schools for little to no money. Why they were picked while some of the other high stat kids that they know were not picked I have no idea. Maybe they did not like their extracurriculars, essays, letters of rec, etc as much. Demonstrated interest does seem to matter. Can you blame them for that?