Thank you for all the feedback! Even with excellent grades and scores, without a coach pushing you through admissions it's too scary to apply RD though we'd really like to be able to figure in finances/scholarships as part of the equation. We're going to ask for financial aid pre reads wherever we can along with the academic reads that are happening. My son's school has very few APs and doesn't weight GPA. All classes are honors classes and he took as many APs as are offered. I could never have done as well as him but in the scheme of all these schools, an unweighted 3.8 (incredibly) is run of the mill. Ack. It will all work out and these are good problems to have.