Look, @econodude, this isn’t my first rodeo. I’ve been through this with an IB diploma 4.6 gpa kid (who didn’t get into Stanford either) from a “highly ranked” magnet. The take-away is that you just have to get over yourself a bit and look deeper beyond numbers and prestige and whatnot. Weighted 4.1 and a million APs say B student more often than not. There are many many highly ranked students in highly ranked schools who do cool things.