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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Second DC applying in this round. The real shut-out risk is that the top student in her class got rejected/deferred for ED. Now the top student (and a couple of others like her close to the very top of the class) will apply RD everywhere. And nobody below them has a chance anywhere T30. You get shut out by your own classmates.[/quote]

This is happening at our private [/quote]

Colleges running admissions by largely comparing students within schools create this problem. One the one hand, a comparison like that is useful/necessary (esp if there is rampant grading inflation in any given school). On the other hand, it really kills students who apply from challenging schools, especially if they belong to a strong cohort. TO and/or general devaluation of test scores also means comparisons will increasingly be made within schools. Clueless DC private school CCOs are unable to manage this well -- unlike NY Privates ( for example). It is a nightmare. My advice to DMV parents: If top 10/20 placement in college is the goal, get your kids out of top privates and into less competitive schools.[/quote]

Totally agree. Each year the system appears more broken than the last. Until and unless the massive supply-demand problem between the number of slots at the top schools (which have not increased by much in the last 30 years) and the number of serious applicants is not resolved, all the perversities are mere symptoms. You fix one, the problem re-appears elsewhere.[/quote]

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