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In the recent past, Sidwell ranked every kid applying to every college and sent that ranking to the schools along with their transcripts. So the colleges would know if Sidwell thought that student was what Sidwell considered their “best” applicant to that school. Sidwell also counseled students on where to apply based in part on these internal rankings, however they did not explicitly tell the kids where they ranked. We know this because it came out of the litigation. 
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2019/07/08/suit-sidwell-friends-parents-shows-what-parents-will-never-accept

Whether they still do that now, I don’t know but you should ask![/quote]

Absolutely no ranking, no weighted GPA[/quote]
I am not sure why you want to dispute evidence presented to court. But this is in fact what Sidwell used to do. Considering that the entire college counseling office were replaced, I would presume that they don’t do it anymore. But Sidwell would in fact handicap kids applications based on an internal ranking. 
[quote]One of the family’s contentions is that the Sidwell Friends college counseling office gave Adetu a different ranking on the Secondary School Report for the various colleges, with her being rated “excellent” for Spelman and “very good” or “good” at the others. They interpreted that as proof that the school was pushing her to attend the HBCU rather than an Ivy League school.

There are different ways to complete an SSR, but Sidwell’s policy was to rank students on each college’s form compared with other applicants from the school, a legitimate procedure.[/quote][/quote]

I watched a coworkers two top kids go this. They were told by the school to apply to only three colleges. And the college calls and asks who the best student is, ie for a ranking. They may also discuss donations, parents, who knows! 
Upper schools definitely try to steer students to a diverse and less overlapping set of colleges, because they need to horsetrade. Or they know an athlete or targeted student is going to take the spot- in a particular school and departments

You do not want to be applying to the same schools and majors as the shoo-ins, even for the shoo-ins. [/quote]

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