<p>@muhammad9211 If she had a 4.56 W, did scientific research, was an AP scholar (doesn’t mean much but whatever), and qualified for USNCO, I’d say she took a hard course load. Just because you do/have all of the qualities a top college says it wants doesn’t mean that you’ll still be accepted. I guess this is one such case. I don’t think she’d be dumb enough to let her essays suck. The fact is that there are simply too many qualified candidates, and for some reason, she didn’t stand out among her peers. I don’t see many major weaknesses like low SAT score on her application, but I don’t see anything that stands out that much either. There’s so many factors that could slightly affect the admission committees mind that it is truly impossible to predict why she did not get in.</p>