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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d guess that many top students at TJ would run the table in RD too. Anyone have experience with TJ?[/quote]

I think it's different at TJ because there are multiple kids tied up at the top of the class.  Maybe 50 with GPAs close to a 4.0 in the hardest classes.  So they're all on even footing and can be teased out based on extracurriculars or demographics or luck of the draw.  And in the end they probably split the top acceptances.

At some of the Big3 there maybe only be 1 or 2 kids who have above a 3.95 (a truly miraculous GPA for these schools) and then a pretty steep drop off---sometimes to below a 3.9.  So if you may have one 3.97 kid  applying to all the top 10 schools then the next kids (with a 3.82, 3.85, 3.86, 3.91, etc) are all going to look pretty second rate (although those GPAs are really, really hard to get as well!!)  The top kid runs the table and the rest get nothing.

You really hope that the superstar kid (and there is often only 1 or 2) stay out of RD.   :lol:

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