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

A star student found herself with a pile of rejection letters from
top schools during the most competitive college-applications year on
record

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Kaitlyn Younger, a self-described perfectionist, plans to attend
Arizona State.
By Douglas Belkin
| Photographs by Laura Buckman for The Wall Street Journal
Updated Apr. 21, 2022 10:34 am ET
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Kaitlyn 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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