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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the last time, the private T25 schools that accept the most number of TO students - of any background, are:

WashU
Vanderbilt
Cornell

And further down:
Wake
Tulane [/quote]

This list is a few short:

WashU
Vanderbilt
Cornell
UChicago
USC

And further down:
Wake
TulanE
Northeastern

Hope this will be helpful to others next year. Especially those with higher GPA than test scores.

Private college counselors keep this type of data close to the vest, but it’s actually really easy to find if you look at the schools CDS.[/quote]

Add:
Swarthmore
Amherst
Williams
Carnegie Mellon

Next tier:
SMU
BU
Villanova
Tufts
Pepperdine
[/quote]
Which schools are the reverse? Take kids with “lower” gpas (think 3.6 unweighted) who have rigor (like 12 AP type) and high scores like 99 percentile? How to find this info out? [/quote]

Yes, this is what I suspect a lot of parents and students want to know.

These are the students whose extremely high test scores were more than sufficient to offset their non-extremely high GPAs in the past.

Now, it's apparently acceptable at Top 25 colleges and universities to have a 4.00 UGPA with 7 AP classes (mixture of 3s, 4s, and 5s on tests) and submit test optional, but not OK at these same institutions to have a 3.6 with 14 AP (mixture of 4s and 5s, or all 5s, on tests) and a 1600 on the SAT. What a bizarre system we're working with today ...[/quote]

I agree, but it’s the world we live in. Can’t fight it.

So kids who are poor test takers but have high GPAs benefit for now.

I assume it will swing back in two or three years[/quote]

Meritocracy is dead. Next  stop will be kids who are poor test takers AND have low GPAs from worst schools will benefit most. [/quote]

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