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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at schools CDS and "By the Numbers" or similar page to get 50% for GPA & SAT and overall acceptance rates.

A safety would be where your kids stats are near the 75th percentile and the acceptance rate is greater than 80%.  Apply to 3 or 4 of these and your kid will get into at least one.

A target would be where your kid is in th50th percentile or greater and the school has an acceptance rate of 45-50% or better.  Apply to 3 or 4 of these and your kid will mot likely get into at least one.

If you are not URM or ADLC everything else is a reach these days.  If you have a particular skill/talent they need that admission cycle like tuba player in the school band, your chances improve, otherwise a crapshoot.[/quote]

That was ours too, but it is completely useless at most schools now. When you look at the CDS and it says 1400 is the 25th percentile, you think, wow that's going to be a hard school to get into; then you see only 20% of students submitted SATs, which means the 1400 is actually more like the 75th percentile. GPA is even worse because lots of schools leave the whole section blank. The only one that sort of helps is the acceptance rate, but that too is misleading when considering niche versus super popular schools.[/quote]

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