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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They definitely compare kids from one school.  I was looking through the SCIOR data for my kid's school and I think it's best for everyone when the academic outliers ED successfully.

In several recent years an academic superstar (4.0 or a hair below) has run the table during regular decision and basically shut everyone else out.  The schools don't have quotas per say but an exceptionally strong kid can seemingly hurt the chances of the 3.8s or low 3.9s. [/quote]

So the kid didn’t ED?[/quote]

I'm not PP but at our school last year, we know of someone who got in SCEA to their dream school but proceeded to run the table in RD for kicks (and was successful at running the table) but then (no surprise) went to the dream school from SCEA. That was crummy and I can't believe the parents and CCO thought it was ok.[/quote]

We go to a big public, but I'm finding this thread fascinating.  I do want to defend that parent, though.  My kid applied REA to Yale and I hope she gets in.  But I bet she will continue to apply to other T20s even if she does.  The reason she applied to an REA school rather than an ED school is that she doesn't know where she wants to go-- wants to know her options, visit the schools again, etc. before deciding.  It never crossed my mind that this would have any effect on any other kid at the school.  [/quote]

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