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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's terrible people say rude things. Your daughter sounds amazing. Congrats on her acceptances![/quote]

I sincerely doubt that anyone says what OP is claiming, and I’ve been active in both private and public high schools. No one says that[/quote]
Sure they say that.  Maybe not as much to their face.  Kid in my high school got accepted to an Ivy, was ranked somewhere around 5 in the class.  No one else in the class attended an Ivy or anything close.[/quote]

When my daughter was applying to colleges we used to go over the Naviance graphs. The one ivy acceptance (Yale) in my kids school in the previous 3-4 years was from a kid of African immigrants.  Had excellent grades (very close to a 4.0 UW) but a 1090 on the SAT (before TO).  All of the other kids with a 4.0 and 1500+ SAT scores were rejected. [/quote]

Similar situation at my kid's HS.[/quote]

No one is getting admitted to Yale with a 1090 SAT.

Stop it.[/quote]

DP here.  URMs absolutely have lower test scores and GPAs for admittance to T25.  You have to be really, really, really out of the loop not to know that.  White kids and Asian kids would never get admitted with most of the URM scores and GPAs. It is not good or bad, it just is. [/quote]
Not all T25 It's easier to get into some schools if you're white than black like Emory and Georgetown. And some of you don't realize that the top 1% of black test takers is a 1390 if I remember correctly so a 1350 for a black child is great compared to a 1450 for a white child. [/quote]

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