Agreed. Last my kid's school has a Chinese girl with better STAT

The girl had AIME twice. USACO semifinal. All 800s on subject SAT. 36 ACT. All 5 on more than 10 APs. Top <1% GPA. This girl has pretty strong EC, leadership and volunteer hours. The only weak spot was has join sport team for one year in high school.

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• where did she go finally? -Smart- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 08:54:20

• Unfortunately, she did not use good public school as backup -jenniferli- ♀ (200 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 08:59:24

• 該不會是和你家牛娃同一屆 所以就杯具了？ -violinpiano- ♂ (65 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:03:29

• My kid is less 牛 than her, although EC may be superior. It is al -jenniferli- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:13:40

• 嗯，我就是担心出现这种申请策略上的失误。所以我们有两个保底学校，虽然可能不入这个坛子的法眼。 -carbrand0- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:04:20

• 这轮不需要两个学校同时保底吧，一个E就够了，省下时间把申请的质量做好。 -糖果果- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:13:26

• UIUC申请时必须定专业。CS专业录取率大概6%，有人告诉我未必能保底。 -carbrand0- ♀ (131 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:17:32

• EA就要定專業？ 不給第二個選擇？ -violinpiano- ♂ (51 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:51:23

• 工程学院必须按专业申请，可以有第二选择但只能是非热门专业。进去后想换专业几乎不可能 -carbrand0- ♀ (166 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 10:05:21

• 是这样的，UIUC CS很不好进。你的情况cornell 没问题 ，它家 CS和工程都很好。其他小藤命中率也很高 -新迟- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 17:33:59

• sigh, "over-qualified"! I remember that a super -Smart- ♂ (247 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:05:25

• 这是个教训啊：论匹配的重要性 -糖果果- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:14:29

• 去年是大选年，而且是特殊的大选年，Local kids 参加政治活动的优势明显。今年应该正常了吧，UIUC 保底应该没问题的。c -开枝散叶- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:27:48

• 那最后这个孩子去哪儿了？ -ahawater- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 08:54:57

• 也很想知道这么优秀的孩子入了哪里了？肯定不止一个好学校，虽然不一定是最心仪的 -carbrand0- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2017 postreply 09:01:37