<p>@TheAtlantic</p>
<p>I disagree with that as well. It’s not that people aren’t “as good as they think they are.” it’s that colleges make room–take away spots from good students–to make a “balanced class.” That is to say one person could get in because they are that straight A student with a bunch of community service hours that a college is looking for and another person could get in specifically because they are that one B/C the college is looking to “give a chance.” </p>
<p>My post was more that people should err on the side of caution @bomerr and that you’re not guaranteed admission just because you are so great. I realize that that didn’t really come off with how I worded it.</p>
<p>I just meant that there is a such thing as being too sure of yourself. Confidence is good, but we all need to check ourselves.</p>
<p>Wow. Now he got off the waitlist at UPenn Wharton and he’s going there.</p>
<p>gg</p>
<p>One year the val at one of the schools who also had very high SATs was rejected by all of her reach schools, the ivies and other highly selective LACs and some national universities that she considered matches. She did get into two schools that were just tacked onto list as safeties that she clearly felt she did not need So this can happen.</p>
<p>Ivy league summer schools are for chumps, and anyone who thinks it helps them in their college admissions is crazy. The schools do them purely as money-making enterprises, knowing that international families are taken by the Harvard or whatever name and will spend several thousand dollars for the babysitting. (I’m not denigrating the selective, subject-based summer programs, just the the general education summer schools)</p>