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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She must be near the top of her class with that GPA at a Big3.   It would put her in the top 5 kids at my child's Big3 school. 
So that in and of itself is huge.

That said, the only kids I know who got into HYP from a Big3 in recent years were
1)legacy
2)sports recruits
3)URM

Literally to a person the kids were one of these.  The same at our local public.  There were 5 HYP admits last year 
4 were legacy; most of these were multi-generational legacies or double legacies (undergrad plus law). 
1 was a sports recruit. 
Then I know of 3 other HYP public school admits (we're in DC) and all 3 were URM, first generation.

It's wild.  There is almost no way in from the DMV without one of the above hooks. 
I think you can get in elsewhere in the US with just the generic 4.0, UW, 35 ACT plus national-level extracurriculars. 
In the DMV you NEED to be legacy/sports/URM.

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My kid's year in a DC private had at least five kids get into one of HYP who were not legacy/sports/URM.  It's not impossible, just highly unlikely.[/quote]

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