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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two things can be true.  College admission can be an intensely individual and narrowly specific analysis (with unpredictability and luck).   And, yet, schools do play a role in that analysis,  and their matriculation numbers are a reasonable (and easily knowable) metric/proxy for families to consider.   [/quote]

Not without breaking it down further. The matriculation “numbers” from a particular hs to the colleges you are interested in don’t represent generic applicants.

Just because a hs sends 2 kids to Amherst this year doesn’t mean your kid will have a shot. Those 2 are star lacrosse players. Amherst only accepts a handful of non athletes, and those fit a very narrow profile to balance the makeup of their incoming class.

That college that reliably takes 5 or 6 kids from a given school decided that the counselors have been encouraging too many sub par candidates to apply and relays this by rejecting all applicants the year your kid is a senior. The one that usually takes 4 actually takes 5 your kid’s senior year, but waitlists your kid because they aren’t looking for any more boys in their engineering school.

These are not hypothetical scenarios- they are real. You are much better off researching what different colleges look for in an applicant while supporting and guiding your kid along the way than focusing on impersonal matriculation data at various APS schools- they aren’t different enough to have any bearing on your kid.[/quote]

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