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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- [b]your school’s data or history is probably more important than you think.[/b] [/quote] THIS. Going through the process first time with older dc. Applied to school which Naviance showed had high rejection rate, but applied anyway bc we considered it a target and had program DC wanted. DC has high GPA and SAT scores. Got rejected. Many of dc's classmates also got rejected. FWIW Applying from Catholic hs to Catholic college. DC said for younger DC we might want to avoid schools like that which reject many of their school's applicants.[/quote] 💯 If the college hasn’t admitted your HS kids in the past, they are not admitting yours unless HOOKED[/quote] This is my number one piece of advice, too. Review your school’s Naviance data carefully. See how many apply and how many get in typically. My kid’s magnet school has 40-70 kids applying to each Ivy+ school every year, most with similarly high stats. Think hard about entering that scrum and the risk that involves. Fortunately my kid liked SLACs better anyway, but it was also good strategy, since they are a much less popular application at her school. She happened to like the most popular WASP so decided to apply ED to maximize her chances. The school usually only admits one-two per year, and it worked out for her. She had the stats but who knows whether she would have been in the one or two selected vs. the twelve other kids applying this year. If the school had no admit history, would not have applied at all. Per Naviance she would have had an excellent shot at Cornell or Georgetown too (26 admits last year) but she really did prefer the SLAC options. Naviance gives unhooked kids a realistic sense of what’s possible. [/quote]
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