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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a s/o of the Duke vs Northwestern post below.

Here is what I've noticed at our selective NYC public:

--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP + Columbia + Penn (Wharton, VIPER or Engineering) .
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Penn
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Chicago, JHU - these kids do very well with ED to the latter two.
--Mid to lower stats + no hook - public school or T50 possibly with merit. Most parents won't pay full for that level.

S and M are rare (most commonly high stats URM); no one gets into Dart or Vandy, for whatever reason

Curious if this is similar to other selective/feeder schools.[/quote]

Top Boston day school:
The tiers are almost exactly the same as above. 
Columbia is much easier than the above , move it down and add Stanford to the top and MIT but MIT lately only takes minorities. 
Add Dartmouth to the cornell chicago jhu group, they love our school.

We have a lot of athletes that get recruited to ivies and they are excluded from the scatterplots so no one knows their stats but they do not take the hardest courses usually.

UCLA and UCB and Michigan and UVA OOS take kids who are above average but not top 10% as well as top kids and are used as targets for top kids. 
 
[b]BC and Wake and NYU love our school and below average kids get in[/b] all the time. These are considered safeties for the top kids.

Our school is a test-in private day school which has a[b] 25th-75th SAT range on the profile as 1400-1510. In other words a quarter of the school is 1510+. [/b]

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Below average at that school is quite impressive overall; not surprising they do well. Interesting TJ has similar to higher SAT distribution and yet does not do nearly as well as your Boston private as far as admissions go. Some schools are just feeders it is what it is. [/quote]

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