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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These chance me threads are honestly not useful. The college process is seriously fickle and unpredictable. You could have a perfect SAT and GPA and get denied from every elite school you apply to. You could be white but be at the bottom 25% for testing, yet get in virtually everywhere. In my experience looking at these posts, high school students have a tendency to severely overrate the quality of their essays and recommendations. You'll mostly see 7-10/10s listed on College Confidential. In the eyes of an admission officer, most will be at the 3-7/10 range. So take subjective remarks about quality with a grain of salt. Something to note for the elite LACs (Williams, Amherst, Pomona) is that [b]they fill a huge chunk of their early class (some 40-60%) with recruited athletes[/b]. While they have higher overall early acceptance rates, it's not really that much higher. To illustrate this, say we have 700 ED applicants at Williams, and 235 were admitted. About 140 of them are recruited athletes- almost all of whom are given verbal commitments that they'll get in. That leaves us with 95 admits among the remaining 560 applicants- a 16.9% acceptance rate. Basically no change from the overall rate. [/quote] Simple math would tell you that this is incorrect. A basic understanding of NESCAC recruiting guidelines would as well. [/quote]
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