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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a bunch of new ivies including Emory, Vandy, Rice.  They can simulate a similar environment.[/quote]

Ha, nope.  Look at parchment match ups, while those are great schools, they are full of kids who didn't get into an Ivy and would have picked it if they had. [/quote]
We did
Emory vs Dartmouth 
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Dartmouth+

Rice vs Cornell
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Rice+University&with=Cornell+

Vanderbilt vs Cornell 
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Vanderbilt+University&with=Cornell+University

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Parchment isn't 100% reliable nor representative of all of the students who had these choices. Nobody is picking Emory over Cornell.[/quote]

At the very least…only the Parchment numbers that are colored red and green are even relevant…anything grey scale doesn’t have enough data to produce a result.[/quote]
No thats not true at all. The numbers are too close together for there to be green and red. How would you color coded 50/50? 
If parchment doesnt have enough data for two schools it looks like this...
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Swarthmore+[/quote]

There is no detail available on how well Parchment's client high schools represent the pool of high schools with applicants to any particular university.  Regardless of (unrevealed) sample sizes they have.  They may also be aggregating data across admission years.  A skew towards Southern private high schools would easily result in the Emory &  Rice vs. Cornell statistics.

The cleanest data would reside at the universities themselves.  They can buy anonymized data from College Board to supplement what they don't get from applicants.  But of course they don't share.[/quote]

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