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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing data.

But aren't acceptance rates at wealthy high schools really misleading --[b] because the entire top half of these schools shotgun blasts apps out to top 50 colleges.[/b]

It's crazy to have 40 50 60 of your public high school classmates applying to Yale![/quote]

Do you have evidence for that? My DC went to Whitman and applied to 11, which seemed to be about the norm for DCs cohort. And of course a lot of kids apply and are accepted ED, so they are applying to 1 (or maybe 2-3 if they also applied EA somewhere). DC knew one kid who applied to 20 and that was seen to be an extreme.[/quote]

My kid at Whitman was in the top 5% of students and applied to 10 last year. She knows most of the other similarly situated kids, and all applied to between 8 and 12 if they didn't get into their ED/SCEA choice, which many did.  There is definitely peer pressure not to apply to a lot of schools, and doing so is frowned on by the counselors. [/quote]

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