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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my small sample size (30 or so friends and neighbors in the past few years), a key factor is the high school. Some high-stat kids get into multiple top 15 colleges without cancer-curing level ECs and the common denominator seems to be a HS top colleges already accepts from every year. These kids are otherwise non big donors/legacy, non athletes. Whenever I hear from a friend their DC has high stats and is choosing between Yale and Williams for ED and then 5 months later I hear they ended up at a still great but below top 40 schools, usually they come from a non JT level public or a good but not well-known private. Aiming too high coming from an unconnected HS is a risky move. [/quote]

+1 Unhooked kids from the public high school here never get into Harvard, Yale or Princeton. A 1600 got into Harvard and a 1590 got into Yale, but those kids has ECs that were out of the norm for our school.

As for those who aimed high (Harvard, MIT and Princeton)

Top 5 GPA, 1540, advanced math beyond BC, public hs, first gen hook — rejected Harvard, WL @ MIT and Princeton. [/quote]

We know a kid like this. Deferred at the Ivies, didn't apply UVA until RD and was not admitted. Ended up at PSU. Should have been an easy admit to UVA in the early rounds. [/quote]

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