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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They definitely compare kids from one school.  I was looking through the SCIOR data for my kid's school and I think it's best for everyone when the academic outliers ED successfully.

In several recent years an academic superstar (4.0 or a hair below) has run the table during regular decision and basically shut everyone else out.  The schools don't have quotas per say but an exceptionally strong kid can seemingly hurt the chances of the 3.8s or low 3.9s. [/quote]

Especially true if non-White and non-Asian…[/quote]

yep. One top 3.98 kid can literally take every top spot in RD.  From all the Ivies to Duke and Rice and Hopkins.  All in one fell swoop.  And they can shut out the entire rest of the class with their lower 3.9s in the process. 
Ask me how I know.   :cry:   [/quote]

Yup happened at my kids school last year.  Did not completely shut out other kids but one kid got in 5-6 Ivys in RD[/quote]

I agree. One or two stars who don't ED successfully can shut out remaining strong kids. The only hope these kids have is for yield protection logic to kick in. [/quote]

Yes, you really hope the 3.98 and 4.0 kids ED successfully or else they will take every Ivy spot and shut out the rest of the class.  This happened at our school last year too.  This kid got in to about 6 Ivies plus Duke, etc in RD and no one else did.  [/quote]

This happened at our school too except the kid was not in the top 10 kids in the grade but a wealthy URM. He did not get into Princeton early but got into many top schools in RD.[/quote]

Totally pathetic to blame one kid. It is much more likely that your kid and the other kids were just lacking. Or your school is. [/quote]

It is a TT NYC school, I did not say no one else got in. I just said one person getting into many schools hurts other kids. This kid was not deserving, but getting news coverage through the influence of connected parents for a random non-profit did help. I don't really care what you really think but these are facts. [/quote]

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