Sorry to butt in to this very interesting forum.
I do not want to sound ungrateful at all.
My son got into Cornell ED to study Econ and government.
I sometimes feel he could have aimed even higher.
He had a 34 ACT first try.12 AP courses
State level in Econ and interview and Math in Academic decathlon.
National level in DECA.
Captain tennis varsity.
A best ever letter from his APUSH and political debate teacher who said he had never seen a more passionate or involved student and felt that he would make the world a better place.
A blog about Economics and Econ related books that he has written since 6 th grade. Econ interest topics only started in high school of course.
The only caveat that my husband and I had was that he had a GPA between 3.6 and 3.7 in junior year partly due to some distraction and intense course rigor and also being of Indian origin that we felt his best chance to get into an Ivy was ED Cornell.He did not care too much for Brown Econ or Darthmouth because of the Greek scene.
I guess I am just looking for reassurance of some kind as I keep thinking we may have shortchanged him,