To Get Into the Ivy League, ‘Extraordinary’ Isn’t Always Enough These Days

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A wave of rejections is swamping top students who applied to highly selective schools during the most competitive college-applications year on record

A star student found herself with a pile of rejection letters from top schools during the most competitive college-applications year on record| Photographs by Laura Buckman for The Wall Street JournalKaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.

She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High School near Dallas and will graduate this spring with an unweighted 3.95 grade-point average and as the founder of the school’s accounting club. Along the way she performed in and directed about 30 plays, sang in the school choir, scored top marks on the tests she has so far taken for 11 advanced-placement classes, helped run a summer camp and held down a part-time job.

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