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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow Weird all the hostility going back and forth here. I have had three kids a a Big Three school recently go through this process and Vanderbilt and Emory are EXACTLY the same in terms of difficulty.  You guys can try to split hairs all you want. They attract the same kids : High stats great grades great extracurriculars- Both School land right below the Ivys.
OVERALL Vanderbilt last year was at 6 % admittance rate and Emory at 10 %
THAT TELLS YOU NOTHING about what it means for how hard it is for kids from the DMV. They are both high reaches for any high stats kids in our area. The kids who freak out and ED to either school  are scared they won't get into the IVY's and don't want to roll the dice.

Also nepotism matters way more at Vandy. Last year the kids from our Big Three who got in there were ALL connected (but academically respectable if not stellar)  and one of my kid's smartest friends ended up at Emory. All this is not statistically relevant. Both are tough admits. [/quote]

Weird, at our private, you need to be in the top 10 percent of class to get into Vandy and the kids who go to Emory aren’t even in the top 20 percent.  Completely different applicant pools.  [/quote]

Just not true.  No way you know where all these kids are.  And for a private top 20% would work at both schools.  Not for publics.[/quote]

It is true.  I know who is the top 10 and 20 percent based on whether they were admitted to cum laude, and when they were admitted (top 10 percent admitted semester earlier) and our school gives annual awards for best gpa.    I also know that Vandy has taken 0 or 1 kid the past few years, and that kid has been in cum laude society.  The Val wa rejected with near perfect SAT scores a year or two ago, in ED. I also know that 3 to 4 kids each year attend Emory and none have been in cum laude society.  A few have been hooked but most aren’t.[/quote]

I don't have a dog in this fight, but you are making Vanderbilt out to be some impossible school when every year our public DCPS school sends 1 or 2 kids to Vanderbilt who aren't the valedictorian and don't have near perfect SAT scores (though they do have strong grades and strong SAT scores).

The published stats at the schools aren't much different.  Who knows why your school strikes out with Vanderbilt...maybe prior accepted kids didn't do well or something weird.[/quote]

It’s the same case as every private in our city, it may be that Vandy is  taking more public school kids and less private.  Up until 2022, they took more kids from our school.

A school with an acceptance rate that is half that of another, however  is by definition a harder admit.[/quote]

Emory CDS:  1470 - 1540 SAT with 61% submitting; 84% in top 10% of class and 98% in top 25% and 99.7% in top 50%
Vandy CDS:  1500 - 1560 SAT with 51% submitting; 92.% in top 10% of class and 95.3% in top 25% and 98.3% in top 50%

While yes it is a harder admit to Vandy, when it comes to test scores and class rank they are very similar...in fact Vanderbilt accepts slightly more kids outside the top 25% of the class which make may be the D1 athlete impact.[/quote]

Ranking data is usually meaningless because so few applicants submit a class rank.[/quote]

Your comment doesn't make any sense in the context of the CDS.  Somebody is doing some kind of ranking because 100% of both school's admits are somehow ranked.

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You are reading it incorrectly.  Those percentages reflect the standing of kids who submit rank, and that’s a very small group.[/quote]

I think PP is correct...the HS comes up with some kind of ranking criteria.  They us blunt cutoffs...top 10%, top 25%, top 50%, not rankings down to the individual.
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You both need to improve you reading skills, the cds makes coear the percentages reflect only those kids who reported class.  A small number of schools still do so.[/quote]

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