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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Application Nation advice: depends on school, major and transcript/rigor profile

Sara H generally says if more than 40% of last class admitted TO, then if you are a majority candidate, only submit if over the 50%.

But you are STEM, analysis might be more complicated: you may have to submit though bc those candidates held to higher standard (given how much competition there is), esp if the SAT score discrepancy shows an extraordinarily strong math score.[/quote]

She has also successfully encouraged some clients not to submit a 34, bc averages moved up.

At a true TO school, Admissions officers don’t assume a “low score”, unless the rest of the application is weak -  in which case your score was never going to help you anyway[/quote]

+1[/quote]

[b]So, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the colleges (if there's a history of kids from our HS matriculating there) know how students, say in the top 5% or top 10% of the HS class perform once they get there? [/b] And they use that data to evaluate the current applicant pool from the high school?

A lot of schools don't give equal weight to test scores and GPA. GPA (and more importantly rigor and quality of transcript) matter MUCH more than test scores. Same with quality and caliber of HS (does the college have a history of accepting kids from your HS, what GPA (and scores) did they have, what was avg freshman and overall college GPA for those kids). Colleges have SO much data on their hands. They aren't just looking at your kids info when they decide.

You have to decide if the scores make your kids application stronger or weaker in light of ALL of those other factors.[/quote][/quote]

I'm sure they have data on how kids do once they matriculate.  Now how this looks or influences future admissions, who knows?
Are admissions officers told "avoid this high school" or "recruit kids from this high school?"  or are they given giant spreadsheets of top performing high schools? I don't think any of us know.  
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Landscape tells them all of this…[/quote]

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