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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
 If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?[/quote]

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.[/quote]

For the 1000th time, the OP's point (verified in this post by many senior parents) is that all IVY and other top 20 admits (aside from 2) are HOOKED applicants.  
Not that they're not impressive.  Just that kids did not get in to those schools if they were not: 1)an athlete, 2)an URM or 3)a big donor legacy or multi-generational legacy. 
That's the POINT of this post.  [/quote]

And your point is utter bullshit. Period. You have no idea what kind of SATs or ACT scores these girls have and unless you’re a complete stalker you don’t know what their transcripts look like either. They could have all A’s and maybe one grade in a random class that brought the whole average down. Schools do look at that sort of thing.[/quote]

True. The more pertinent datapoint is the admissions results of “unhooked” students with top NCS GPAs (and test scores, to the extent colleges considered them). [/quote]

Yes, that is the more pertinent datapoint PPs! The question is did the girls who are going to "lesser" schools (that have an average SAT of 1100 and median GPA of admits of 3.1) and there are only a tiny handful of these only get admitted to those sorts of schools even if her stats were high above that. I doubt it. There are many options in between! The two schools on that list like that are large universities so maybe there is a specific draw there. I think NCS girls do very well, even without hooks, at an assortment of SLAC and smaller universities that are all fantastic schools, and probably very exciting fits for each girl, even if they aren't all Harvard-like. Not everyone even wants to go to Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, etc for undergrad. This is all conjecture without knowing the specifics of each girl, which I need not and do not want to know.[/quote]

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