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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we get that, but the end result will surely be 3% admission rates at dozens of schools.

This hurts kids. Too many kids -- not just UMC -- are spending their childhoods trying to "craft a story" for colleges that are just a crapshoot.

Having just sent my youngest through the NYC high school system where you get a lottery number at the beginning -- it was a bit of relief. Okay, so we don't have to worry about this entire tier of schools with your 78% lottery number, even with your straight As.  And parents in one year pulled the data together to show lowest lottery number admitted so we knew.

I wish the colleges would put in a floor at least. No, we didn't take any kids with an 1150 or a 3.1. Publish that. They really do the opposite not. Mailers and emails to kids who have no shot.  It's cruel iMO[/quote]

They are never going to publish the absolute floor because it doesn't exist for any school. There are always exceptions (e.g., development, football recruit, 1st gen, etc.). However, if you look at the CDS for any school, you figure out the relative floor by looking at the stats for the majority of enrolled students.

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