Awh , it got so messed up that you couldn ' t fix it ? <| sep |> He ' s just a dick . shrug <| sep |> There is just no way to really know . Every kid is different and every high school is different . My son got into Harvard and Yale with a 93100 weighted average . Not sure what that is in 4 point scale . He was in 2 nd quartile of his class at a selective prep school . He had no major hooks . But he ' s extremely smart and creative and most importantly didn ' t spend time in high school looking for the magic formula . He just followed his interests and pursued them . Edit I have to add that he was passionate and pushed himself to be successful in anything that he wanted to do . That showed in his teacher recommendations and his activities . He also didn ' t go the computer scienceengineering route .