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[quote=Anonymous]Let's analyze this.

"An excellent private that sends 40% to T30" typically means it's a schools with lots of legacy and some hooked kids. Is this in NYC or a top boarding school? If it is or something similar, 2 kinds of kids from these privates get into a T20 like Cornell: hooked kids/legacy/athletes, or unhooked academic stars who are top 10% of the class.

If OP's DC is unhooked and top 30%, then you need to get really lucky to get into a T20:
- have top teacher reco letters that speak to potentials to grow into much higher than top 30%
- great SAT/ACT 
- have a very special EC, and
- have no other higher ranked kids applying to the same T20

All T20 colleges want top 10% kids (HYPMS want top 5%). At top 30% from a very competitive private with hooked kids, your best bets would have been U Chicago if full pay ED 0/1, or a tier 2 LACs like Middlebury that love full pay kids from top privates.

We're in a private that sends 40% to T30, including at least 1-2 kids/year to HYP and 2-3/year to Cornell. I just checked, the Cornell accepts are top 15% of the class.

Try these for ED2 and RD if your DC is excited about them and wants a higher ranked school (assuming since they applied to Cornell for humanities so assuming rank/prestige is a consideration):
ED2 - Emory, Tufts, NYU, Wash U
RD: Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Vassar[/quote]

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