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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming from a top private:

-Admission to top schools is MUCH easier for boys than girls. It pretty much SUCKS to be a female applicant in 2025. Boys this year from our school are getting in with stats way below the girls. (I have 2 boys in upcoming admissions years so I don't say this from a point of sour grapes as an only girls mom or anything)

-Being a legacy with parents who are also VIPs or big donors is huge. I mean duh.  But wow, it just is.

-E[b]D is such a crap shoot and I'm not sure how to play it best. My kid went for a top10 and lost (deferred) and now I have no idea how far down she'll fall. She's hoping for RD decisions to schools where classmates with GPAs much lower than hers got in ED (like 3.9 RD vs 3.4 ED). What is the right/best way to play ED? I don't know. TBD in our case. [/b]

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did your school's data show you anything in retrospect? was it truly a longshot? too much in-school competition?
Our private's CCO would have advised an ED1 to a school like Vanderbilt, Rice, WashU, Emory (with ED2 to another) for someone that they KNEW would be a longshot to T10.[/quote]

Data supported it (as much as data can support a top10---i.e. there were a few unhooked applicants admitted within the past 3 years with the same GPA) but the university simply did not take ANY kids so far this year. "Data" only goes so far. You have no idea what a new admissions year will bring. 
I disagree with ED1 Vanderbilt and Rice being a much more sure thing. They are as much as a crapshoot as top10s from many high schools, including this one. WashU and Rice are probably a better shot--that is true. [/quote]

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