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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the “letter quality vs academic performance” argument applies to the OP’s case. Her kid likely had a GPA lower than 4.4 at the end of his junior year, which translated into somewhere between top 30% to top 40% of their class at TJ? Unless their letters and/or ECs are spectacular, not getting into an Ivy or T20 is actually not surprising.[/quote]

I’d be curious to know where they applied early to?

This is the kind of kid that should’ve ED1/ED2 to WashU or Emory or Tufts.[/quote]

ED1/2 to WashU would have been a smart strategy. I’m surprised that the parents were so surprised by the Ivy rejections! I think their kid got into a couple of schools in the Emory/Tufts range.[/quote]

I would have ED1 Dartmouth or Cornell or Vanderbilt.
ED2 WashU or Rice.

What was the major?
Family probably thought the 1600 carried more weight than it did.[/quote]

All those schools get a billion apps from students with perfect grades and test scores from everywhere in the US and much of the world. Once you hit a baseline for stats, the rest of the app is what matters - ECs, leadership, LOCs, community service, awards, etc. And that baseline is significantly lower than 4.4 and 1600. It's the what else you got part that matters at this level. [/quote]

there are between 800-1500 perfect 1600s about 300 1590s and about 500 1590s[/quote]

More like 300-500 1600 perfect 1600 scorers.

20k 1530+ scorers (1% 2 million test takers)
Score BandApprox. % of all takersEstimated # of students
1530–1539~0.30%~6,000
1540–1549~0.22%~4,400
1550–1559~0.17%~3,400
1560–1569~0.12%~2,400
1570–1579~0.08%~1,600
1580–1589~0.05%~1,000
1590–1600~0.06%~1,200

Even with superscoring the tail end won't see that large of an increase (solely due to the difficult of superscoring eg a 1560, regression to the mean, variance squeeze, diminishing superscoring lift, etc)

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