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[quote=Anonymous]some of you all are going off the rails!  Trying to read tea leaves and parse small differences b/w kids is just going to make you crazy.  Most Ivies will not take more than 5-10 students from any given school.  It's likely the same 5 top students are getting into more than one Ivy (kids don't typically apply to one).  NMSF is an awesome application boost.  So is winning some science prize or violin competition.  Being an alum kid never hurt.  Basically you put your best case forward & there's going to be a toss up between extremely competitive top kids from each school at the end.  Having gone through this myself - it's not a fully rationalizable decision process.  The schools are looking for a mix of kids that fit whatever model they have - and they are looking across the whole DC region and the country to make up that mix.  Among the highest performing kids, they are going to have better odds for their choices -- but then for the next 20% of whatever student body, it's almost a pure toss up for who else gets in to Dartmouth and who gets in to Middlebury and who gets in Tulane.  There's no rational explanation for why which kids class ranked 10-50 get into which of these extremely good schools and which don't.

There's probably not a single student whose family can afford tuition at one of the "Big 3" who would be steered away from applying somewhere due to money (or if the kids in on scholarship at a Big 3, they already have a hook that's likely giving them an added edge rather than a disadvantage).

And don't believe all the rumors - most of them are people trying to put a rational frame to explain things that they have no idea why or how they ended up a certain way - or are blatantly lying to make themselves or kids seem better or more important or whatever sport.[/quote]

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