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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And since PP keeps annoyingly asking the same question over and over, I'll ask mine again too -- why isn't the aggregate matriculation list enough? Or putting it another way, what's insufficient about it?[/quote]

No one seems even to have tried to answer the question that you believe is annoyingly being asked over and over, which is perhaps why it keeps being asked.

By contrast, your question has been answered, even if you don’t like or disagree with the answers. Additionally, Sidwell’s aggregate 5 year list doesn’t provide total numbers so it’s even less meaningful in providing context and perspective.[/quote]
And I see that you've conveniently ignored the response at 13:17 addressing the complaint about alleged deficiencies head-on:

"Why do you think that the aggregate list doesn't provide enough data to figure out a range of expectations for your DCs?

By senior year, you should be able to make educated guesses about roughly where DC sits in the grade from a holistic qualifications standpoint -- top 10 percent, top third, top whatever -- and then see which schools in the aggregate list fall under the top X percent of matriculations, after defining the "top X percent of schools" however you want or using the US News or whatever ranking as a proxy. That should be plenty of data to shape your reaches, targets, and safeties from an expectations standpoint."[/quote]

That’s not responsive to the points that have been made about why sharing a list would be helpful. Scattergrams can help with that also. But that’s different from a list, for reasons that have been explained.

Why do you think sharing a list is unnecessary or unhelpful?[/quote]

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