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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of wishful thinking on this thread. Or else, the private school in question is just a run of the mill place that charges tuition and isn’t special enough to be well known to all the AOs of the T20.

My kid graduated since covid from the latter type school with a 3.8, 1550 and no national accolades. He was, however, a favorite of his teachers and a true intellectual.  He easily nabbed a spot at his dream school (t15, non ivy). [b]But his friends *with even lower gpas* from the same graduating class  DO currently attend Ivies inc Yale, Columbia and Brown, Chicago, Northwestern and JHU.[/b]

The 3 kids in the class i know with the highest gpa are at Harvard and Stanford unhooked. And Princeton, but hooked.

All “privates” =/=[/quote]

So it would appear that you are joining us from NYC or somewhere else that has super elite privates where a 3.7 can get into "Ivies inc Yale, Columbia and Brown, Chicago, Northwestern and JHU."  That really isn't applicable to the DMV.  I had 2 kids at TWO different top DMV independent schools and neither one had a single kid get admitted to any Ivy with anything under a 3.8 last year.  And the 3.8 kids cohort was like 1 or 2 kids max.

I'm glad that your super private (I'm not being sarcastic) can get these kids in but it's simply not the case around here. [/quote]

PP here.  It’s Sidwell. It’s not for me to christen Sidwell “super elite” but I am confident— because I lived it — that a 3.8 from this school doesn’t relegate the applicant to scraps or whatever PP said.  It’s not just my kid, it’s all their friend group. And they all share GPAs (because you only get an official GPA that one time, and everyone talks).  [/quote]

This is so interesting. A 3.8 from NCS is borderline for top20 schools.  A 3.7 is a definite no. You really need a 3.9 at NCS to do well and there are about 15 girls each year who have this GPA.  It sounds like Sidwell is further grade deflated and/or more respected in the college admissions game or maybe does better simply because they have boys too.  [/quote]

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