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[quote=Anonymous]YCBK new episode (Jan 8) had some eye-opening stuff here - curious if anyone else caught it??

1. Kids in HS "making a choice to avoid rather than embrace"

2. There are "bells and whistles that might keep a student in the running"

3. And it is harder to get into a selective school from some of these top high schools that generate a lot of applicants. "Why should you get punished for going to a really good school"? "Why should the bar be higher"?

4. Is yield more important than pure academic rating? Your individual high school's internal knowledge on yield DRIVES a selective school's RD admissions decision-making by the regional AO (ex. Northwestern and Emory RD admittances vary dramatically from a fancy NYC private high school)

5. Colleges want what they DON'T have.

6. The distance traveled = how far have you gone with the resources that you're given?

7. Boys don't look "as together and perfect and spit polished as girls" in the applicant pool. Girls can almost look like they have peaked in high school, which is not good, actually". Colleges are ALL about growth potential. Boys never look very perfect.

8. Evaluating school groups: Schools are looking for students who are a great fit, who are likely to keep growing and contributing - whether 30, 40 or 150 kids are applying from the same high school. It's not linear by GPA. They are also looking for kids in the school group who come from a family that isn't as well-resourced and will factor that in rather than take one broad stroke of the brush and apply the same rules to everyone from the same school. "So a student who is maybe not the top achiever in a school group, but who has been engaged consistently over time and done all the extras in their application is going to get bumped up in the ratings substantially, especially if one of the ratings reflects a likelihood of enrollment." If a college considers demonstrated interests, there is going to be some kind of score on that (an affinity score).

9. Money

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