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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience with 1 kid at a HYSP (a 1510), one other in at another Ivy (1490) and one just accepted to a top public (34 ACT) - all no hooks - 1500 and average ECs are fine. Factors that personally I think move the needle:

1) Full pay
2) Essays and EC story (doesn't need to be leadership experience but able to highlight definitive contributions, lessons / skills learned, links between activity choices and major interests all tied together in an interesting and authentic way)
3)[b] Predictive profile (I strongly suspect there is AI being used that identify which students are likely to graduate on time, employable afterwards, and avoid protesting) [/b]

I agree that your DC needs a balance list with likely schools they actually like (and ideally ones that will provide decisions prior to winter break such as Fordham) but it's also okay to aim high. [/quote]

I agree with all of this, but esp the bold.
Saw it in action in the last 2 cycles: they use parents' degrees (and schools attended) and parents' profession (along with siblings' colleges, if any) and type of HS in some sort of data analytics. Don't know about the "avoid protesting" but I know for a fact one T10 does use the family education data for analytics....

Do what you will with that.[/quote]

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