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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to gauge the gap between expectations and reality here.  If you are Big 3 and your kid got say 1490 with typical grades for someone with that score (not absolutely perfect), where would you hope they could get in (examples of schools) and where are they actually getting in? [/quote]

This is all over the map (academically & geographically): Denison, College of the Holy Cross, Santa Clara, Brandeis, Pitt, St. Olaf, DePaul, University of Rhode Island, University of New Hampshire [/quote]

Those are safety schools for public school kids with those stats. Big 3 can’t even get into Bates or Smith ED with those stats? Kenyon RD? [/quote]

All three schools you listed should not be considered safeties. Why do you think that big 3 students should get into better colleges than public school kids of the same stats?[/quote]

If it is understood that a 3.2 at a private school is like a 3.7 at a public school because of different grading standards, then there should be some effort to make an adjustment. That would be fair and rational right?[/quote]

I think every college on the list in this thread is aware of the top public and private schools in this area and how to evaluate the students [/quote]

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