<p>“How would you expect one to feel after all those sacrifices (after all we’re talking about people who do NOT enjoy school and learning for learning’s sake) if the reward is admittance to the same school that admitted fellow classmates who hardly broke a sweat through high school?”</p>
<p>That scenario rarely happens Dunnin. There are three ways this could happen:</p>
<p>1) A student did not apply to an appropriate portfolio of schools, missing the crucial match and safe match schools
2) A student was very unlucky, getting rejected by schols that would have ordinarily accepted such a student
3) A student isn’t academically inclined, in which case, he/she must study much harder to just keep up with the average student</p>
<p>Bottom line, you aren’tgoing to have many 4.0 students with 2100 SAT scores end up at a university ranked out of the top 50 unless they really screwed the pooch. All top 50 schools have a significantly large percentage of students who pushed themselves hard in high school and graduated among the top 5% of their class.</p>