One of my best friends is only applying to two schools. She doesn't have the best grades in the world, and she only got a 1550 on the SAT (out of the new 2400). She's done lots of sports, but that probably doesn't make up for her grades/test scores. The problem here is, both of the schools are really hard to get into. One of them is known to be extremely hard - people who aren't in the top ten percent of their class normally can't get in (if you are in that percentage you're automatically accepted to a public university), and she isn't. She thinks that she's going to get in because her dad is alumni, but I don't think so. The other school she's applying to is really hard to get into, as well. I asked her about it and she doesn't have any safety schools that she's applying to.

Not smart.

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