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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all this reform talk wasn’t focused on the maybe 40 or so most “elite” schools it might be interesting but it just comes off as more striver prestige whore BS. Sorry your nerd son might have to settle for, dare I say, Emory![/quote]
I think the point is that nerd sons are wisely foregoing ED at Williams or Amherst since well over 80% of the slots go to athletes or first gen. They are “settling” for lower Ivies. [/quote]
Williams and Amherst are low ivy( ie Cornell) level. Maybe lower. [/quote]
Not for an unhooked applying ED they aren’t. Much better chances ED at Cornell, Brown, Penn, Columbia etc. (not to say the chances at Cornell are good). Why is this so difficult to understand? I think this board has math problems. Athletes at Williams and Amherst apply and are admitted ED — 90% of them. That’s 70% of ED admits. I repeat, 70% of ED admits. Then we have Questbridge and like programs, also ED. Some big donors, some faculty brats, additional first gen at the ED round, and snatching up the South Dakota kid. That’s possibly 90% of ED slots.

A very smart unhooked kid has the same chances of getting in SCEA. Maybe even slightly higher. [/quote]

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