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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exactly why the school college counselors should be providing parents with more info and not less. Backing up assertions and recommendations with cold hard facts and data that is actually useful (not the SCOIR data which is essentially meaningless if you don’t know possible hooks and that they leave the parents to interpret for themselves) would be welcomed, at least by this parent![/quote]

How is SCOIR useless?  At our school they take out the hooked kids.  The GPA curves are pretty darn definitive for most schools.  (they're sobering but definitive).  I.e if your kid does not have a 3.9, do not attempt an unhooked Ivy bid.  If you're not above a 3.7 you'll probably end up at a school ranked above 50. 
I mean, it's all there.  I've posted about it before (on DCUM) and parents argue with me.  "Oh, no way--lots of kids getting in XYZ with 3.5 GPAs.".  Well, no.  The actual data doesn't show that.

I really think the schools (at least some--maybe not GDS) give more data than parents report.  They just might not give data that parents want to believe. [/quote]

Would love it if you could point us to the particular threads you are referring to. Thx.[/quote]

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