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Of course grades and test scores come first, but the arbitrariness comes into play, because elite schools could fill themselves several times over with perfect test scores and grades. Therefore the spin the college counselor puts on it can influence the process. Naturally one wants to believe that the soft skills should be emphasized, but these are difficult to evaluate in an application.[/quote]

It's definitely non-deterministic, but the indeterminism comes in the essay and the extra-curriculars, not in "how the application is put together." A private counselor will not make or break your child's application.

I'm not a huge fan of platitudes around "elite schools could fill themselves several times over with perfect test scores and grades." No they couldn't, there are fewer perfect SAT scores in a year than the incoming class of even one of these schools (usually around 1k-2k). If you get a 1600, you're probably going to go to one of those top schools, even if you won't get into every single one. [/quote]

I'm not sure this is true with "super scoring"...look at MIT's score range.  The top 25% received perfect scores.  That's just one school.  Some kids are taking these tests 5-6 times to get a perfect score or close to it. I've seen other threads where people talk about whether to only focus on one section in a retake because of superscoring (with private tutoring of course). It's just another area where wealthy kids have a leg up.[/quote]

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