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[quote=Anonymous]I love the confidence of the "Simple" response! I tend to let basic typos go but I would be careful trusting a source saying "Within the first five ranks in..."
Many great schools no longer rank or do the College Board AP $$ holdup and the SAT practices tests were fully terminated in 2021. 
Colleges have never simply looked for the most "academically accomplished" students. Making a huge deal about the academic accomplishments of a high school senior is really no different than doing the same thing about a 5th grader who killed it in elementary and did great on the Independent School Entrance Examination. Schools are not seeking out the very best finished academic products when looking at these kids because college is really a new beginning academically (not an end, as some on DCUM seem to think).

Saying we're looking for a trumpeter this year also shouldn't be understood as looking at the best current trumpeter, which I think a lot on DCUM misunderstand. Perceived potential matters. An easier and more visible example of this is athletic recruiting where an top college coach (and admissions) will often prefer an athlete who is slightly slower as a distance swimmer but who has only started swimming longer distances in the last 2 years and hasn't ever had a rigorous club distance training regimen over someone with a better PR but who has been training at the top level for 10 years and has plateaued time wise.[/quote]

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