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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no way to know people's "hooks."  If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling![/quote]

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.[/quote]

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades. [/quote]

LOL - yeah - right.

I can give you two examples from our DC's graduating class. And yes - both had VIP + legacy hooks.[/quote]

I doubt they really had average grades. I do not know what school or kids you are referring to but even 3.5 is a good gpa at these top privates and if you look closely at their transcripts as colleges do I know of friends who have kids that have all A's and tanked a random class in an elective like Art or something that brought down GPA but if you recalculate it it would be much higher. So you really never know and besides who cares?! This is life. [/quote]

Doubt all you will.  I wouldn't give an example with no support.

And, to your 3.5 point..... I'm sorry - but you are delusional if you think a student who took none of the higher rigor courses offered in HS is considered as having a good GPA at 3.5.  Especially among their peers who did take higher rigor classes offered and have 3.9 and know the amount of difference it takes.

Our school doesn't even give GPA (only to mark on the SOIR/Naviance type product) and Art is not included. 
 
Again - I'm not sure why you are doubting something when you have no idea of which school, which students, etc. This isn't conjecture.[/quote]

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