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<p>Don’t hold your breath. My son’s perfect ACT/PSAT/SAT II scores and 1/400 class rank didn’t get him accepted at MIT or Yale.</p>
<p>I hope Sean Wheelock looks beyond just applying to MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. These schools routinely reject the majority of perfect scorers and, based on the article, his leadership roles in ECs and community service are pretty weak, relative to national competition. SG President and otherwise nothing; no regional or national awards.</p>
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<p>Happens all the time. Well-advised students will ladder their choices with acceptance rates up into the 30% range and end up somewhere they can happily call home. The ones who get too cocky often find themselves at the undesired safety they never expected to attend. The competition is truly brutal out there these days!</p>