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Oh please, don’t be so presumptuous. I wasn’t even in the top 20% of my HS class I don’t think and I still got into Duke, Cornell and Michigan Honors as well as being waitlisted by Penn Wharton, Columbia CAS and UChicago. I’m neither a URM or an athlete. There are plenty of kids like me out there who compensate their lower grades with high test scores, strong extracurricular involvement, good essays, etc. I’m convinced I wouldn’t have even gotten into Michigan if my ACT score was too much lower, even though I took a much more challenging curriculum than the vast majority of my peers and my school had great grade inflation.</p>