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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED Chicago or Cornell or Tulane, BC, Wake, UVA, Wisc, Colby, Bowdoin, Richmond, Sewanee[/quote]

Not ED Chicago and Cornell unfortunately with a 90.

May I suggest Grinnell, Bates, Denison, Davidson ED. My kid's friend with a similar academic profile and similarly talented got in ED at Davidson.[/quote]

Dp, but as as I posted before, they love private school kids.  I think it’s possible.  [/quote]

I am talking as a parent from a selective private school. a 93-94 from a selective private school can get into ED Cornell (the harder ones) and U Chicago. A 90 will be an exception. The Davidson example I gave was for a private school kid. She had a ACT 35 and a 90 GPA[/quote]

Interesting! I think regional feeder schools come to play. A <95 and a 1590 with all 5's in APs could not even think of applying to HYPSM pragmatically because there were no national level awards. The kids who get into Harvard are those with 96+ and a gazillion top levels ECS. And we are a hard school with grade deflation. But not in the NE.

A 93-94 from our private can get into any Ivy, Duke, etc, especially when they are closer to 94/95. I know a number of these kids THIS year. 
It's really difficult to get a 93+ at some private schools and is the top 10% of the class if not even higher (top 5%).  
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Totally agree [/quote]

which school(s)?[/quote]

STA for one.  Unhooked admits to Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, so far this year among kids with GPAs 93+.
It's ridiculously hard to get a high 90s average across all classes for 4 years. 
Much harder to do than the averaging of letter grades across quarters that MCPS does. 
--->You can end up with an unweighted 4.0 GPA in MCPS with a numerical average of 84.5 in every class. 
Colleges recognize this.  
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