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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think kids are pitted against each other as much as people think. Selective schools have likely been getting apps from feeder high schools for years if not decades and can adjust. I remember a year when one of HYP took seven kids from one high school here (not DC) - hasn’t happened any other year. [/quote]

Aberrations like this in the past (7 into Harvard) were often the consequence of unusual high-powered legacy bunching in a given year etc. Not a reliable indicator of the game today (and, indeed, not even for yesterday). In today's world, my reading of the stats from DC's SCOIR is that there appears to be heavy within-school comparison. Plus, the top kids getting shut out in ED is fatal to the next 10 kids in the class who did not lock in vis EA/ED, as the top will apply everywhere. Waitlists are NOT maintained by the school (so when the top student has gained acceptance at a few places and picks one, it is not as if the college AO then goes back and looks at who they can bring in from that same school). If you didn't make it in the first RD round, you are dead to the college for all practical purposes, even if the top student from your school turned around and rejected that college to go elsewhere.

Bottom line: Pray that the top kids in your DC's school get their EDs. Bloodbath for everyone below otherwise.[/quote]

what private school are you mostly referring to?  You must have experience with one, based on your post. 
I'm curious as I have a kid at a DC private and am worried about this happening.  [/quote]

Independent in different city, but similar to Big 3. This happened in DC's class - while didn't end up being brutal, the tension and uncertainty extended for three-ish more months. Probably the top 5 kids did not get in ED - a couple were deferred and three were outright rejected. Sidenote: one of the ED1 rejected was @ upper end of T10, hedging they wouldn't get into an Ivy, but got into HYPSM in RD. But who knows if they would've gotten in REA in December.

Those five didn't necessarily seem to displace the next rungs who had also not gotten in ED1. There was scrambling, etc. Some opted for ED2. There were a subset of those who didn't rejigger at all, but just picked an ED1 peer for ED2. Worked out for some, but others rejected and all was riding in RD.

There is only one kid in that grade who just seemed to strike out. Trying to transfer out of his safety. [/quote]

What’s the profile of that one kid?[/quote]

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