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Message: [QUOTE="Paesano, post: 3013581, member: 5631"] The admissions officers were not totally honest with you. Trust me, a lack of community service did not kill your son's chances. He probably was an unhooked applicant. That means he needed some exceptional accomplishment in his application to have a chance. They don't care about what these kids add to their community. They care about what the kids add to their incoming class profile. If your kid won the national championship in archery, he probably would have gotten in. By the way, there is a lot of misleading information coming out of admissions offices. If they didn't do that, every tiger parent out there, and there are tens of thousands of them, would be forcing their kids to contrive the perfect application. They are already getting 20X as many applications as they can accept. Their job is already incredibly difficult. If they got 20,000 identical perfect applications, what the hell would they do? [/QUOTE]