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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1590 SAT/4.8 GPA at MCPS Magnet/4 years varsity sport/related internship.

Rejected MIT Brown
W-L CM and Cornell
Attending UMD [/quote]

It's stuff like this that makes me nervous.  DC is 1580/4.69 (although this is essentially the maximum achievable GPA at DC's school) from a top private, 800 on SAT II in math and chem, will be 4 years varsity sport, some ECs but nothing super special there.  DC is up and to the right of every person from the school is Naviance.  It's really hard to tell, particularly in this new environment, at what point schools shift from being unlikely but possible, to greater than 50% chance, to virtual certainties.[/quote]

What "top private" weighs grades?  Sidwell//GDS/STA/NCS don't and getting anywhere near a 4.0 is rare.  Are you posting from out of area?[/quote]

+2 When you say “top private” and then say 4.69 GPA people know you are lying because DC top privates don’t weight grades and don’t have APs. You are posting on a DC site, so at least qualify by saying “a top private in another area” or this makes NO sense.[/quote]

It's a top private not in the District itself but in the area, which does weight grades but does not have APs.  So it does make sense. But it's fun to have all the DCUM know-it-alls flooding in here.[/quote]

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