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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are thinking uncommon trumps high stats, you can are thinking in the wrong way.

It’s high stats + being uncommon.

Low stats, uncommon: 09
High stats, uncommon:  99
High stats, common: 90.  [/quote]

Exactly.

Only a handful things can offset low stats (defined as less than the school’s 25th percentile.)

Being “uncommon” is not one of them, unless that “uncommon” thing happens to be an institutional priority at that school that year. (Like an oboe player whose accolades or musical submission knocks the socks off the music faculty … on a year when their current star oboe player will be graduating.)

Otherwise, the value of being “uncommon” may come into play when a school is trying to decide which high stats kids to accept and which to waitlist or reject. (Again, “high stats” means different things for different schools. For some schools, a 3.8 and 1450 would qualify as “high stats” while at other schools that would not.)

Finally, we know many high stats kids with “common” profiles who got into T20 schools in the past three years. It happens. Not every kid on these campuses is a unicorn. [/quote]

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