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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They definitely compare kids from one school.  I was looking through the SCIOR data for my kid's school and I think it's best for everyone when the academic outliers ED successfully.

In several recent years an academic superstar (4.0 or a hair below) has run the table during regular decision and basically shut everyone else out.  The schools don't have quotas per say but an exceptionally strong kid can seemingly hurt the chances of the 3.8s or low 3.9s. [/quote]

So the kid didn’t ED?[/quote]

In both cases no.  I'm not sure why--I didn't know the kids.  Either the kids wanted to maximize their options or college counseling advised them too.  If it's the later that's not good college advising.  You really hurt your other strong but not perfect applicants by suggesting this.  When the privates have years when "only one non-hooked kid got an Ivy spot!" this is often a contributing factor.  There ARE unhooked spots being offered---they're just all going to one superstar kid.  [/quote]

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