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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you everyone! So in the absence of test scores or similar, are the letters of recommendation from current school the most important thing? [/quote]

There is no one thing that matters most as frustrating as that is.  The schools are trying to create a balanced class with enough kids to support activities, have diversity, be academically strong, and gender-balanced if a coed school.  So it’s really the whole package - grades, recommendations, interviews, whether your kid is a strong athlete, whether your kid is strong in another activity (art, performing arts, music, robotics, etc.), whether you are a URM, whether you otherwise have a compelling story.  That is why people spread applications around several schools.  It is really difficult to predict admissions at any one school because there aren’t test scores or grade cutoffs.

So if you have an otherwise strong student (strong grades and recs) the typical pattern is to apply to 2-4 schools with competitive admissions and then 1-2 that you are pretty sure you’d get into so you have a choice.  [/quote]

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