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[quote=Anonymous]My nephew got into Rice and JHU as an unhooked, white, meh-EC, full-pay boy.  Top non-DMV east coast private (thing NYC/NJ/Boston), played a sport for four years, JV Fr - Jr year, then V senior year, not a captain or that good.  Solid debater, leader of the debate team, not at the national level, but definitely his strongest EC.  Had work experience, worked at an old folks home for 2+ years, and I think wrote his essay about this.

Top student.  1550 SAT unprepped aside from Khan Academy and a review book, took the test once.  
Strong GPA - school does not weight and his GPA was a 3.85, which was top 20% of his class, maybe even top 10%, but school does not rank; he was admitted into the Honors Society, which is the top 20% of the class.  
All honors/AP level courses when available, BC Calc junior year, 5s on each of the exams he took with the exception of a 4 on the sophomore year AB AP exam(sophomore year: Human Geography, AP Calc AB, Enviromental Science Junior Year: One of the English exams, One of the Spanish exams, Bio, AP Calc BC, APUSH, Senior year: The harder Comp Science, Chemistry, Physics C, The other English and Spanish exam options)

So he is an EXCEPTIONAL student, in my opinion, and Rice was the strongest school to which he was admitted.  He applied:
Standford Denied
Harvard Denied
Brown Denied
JHU Accepted
Rice Accepted
He was accepted to other schools that were his low targets/safeties
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