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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

How were your twins' strength of applications?  Did you have one who was a slightly stronger student, better extracurriculars, etc?

I'm wondering how this works out.  (I should have asked this from the beginning!)  Thx!![/quote]'

This is my fear as the parent of twin Juniors. Their GPAs are close (4.1 and 4.0) with many of the same ECs. But one kid's SAT was 100 pts higher than the other.[/quote]

OP here.  Mine are quite different. Girl is an incredibly diligent student. Boy is probably "smarter" at baseline but doesn't care to the degree that his sister does (cuts corners a lot of the time and he can generally get away with it). 
Some of this is personality, some is just a difference in developmental maturity. 
Her GPA and course rigor are higher, his PSAT score was 150 points higher.

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DP I have the same. Two sophomores. She scores better on GPA, he on standardized tests. She has some stronger ECs as well. They are mostly going to be applying to the same in state colleges as their baseline with a few different but equally far flung locations added in for each of them. They won't be studying the same majors.[/quote]

OP here.  This is exactly mine.  Girl also has better extracurriculars (also a function of maturity--she dove right in during 9th grade, he is dragging his feet in some things at the end of 10th). 
She has a solid idea of what she wants to study in college, he really has no idea at all. 
They would probably be happy at the same universities but I doubt they'll apply to the same ones.  I think in our case we want to avoid the direct comparison.  
Also she is turning out to be a heavy STEM kid; he started out on this path but it turns out he's actually far better at English.  The issue being that excelling in English is harder to quantify than being a star in STEM (fewer AP classes, etc) and he's 
not particularly motivated to write, etc outside of class (for publications, contests, etc). [/quote]

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