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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a gpa cutoff beyond which candidates are grouped in the high academic bucket. Some people seem to think at private schools 3.9 is a cutoff. When a 3.93 and 4.0 with same rigor are evaluated, does the 4.0 get a slight edge? Or AOs pretty much focus on ECs at that point. Should a student who has a 3.94 apply to same school as a 4.0 in ED or is it a disadvantage?[/quote]

FWIW, my DD applied ED to a school with a 4.341, her friend (almost exactly the same class load) applied to the same school EA with a 4.35.  My DD got a "no" and her friend got a "yes".  This is in the data that our private school shares, it's anonymous, but there is enough data to know who is who.

All the decimals matter - especially at a large school. It's how they make these decisions.

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Something in your daughter’s friend’s application was more appealing to the school—essay, recs, ECs, or some combination. There’s no way one-one-hundredth of a point in GPA was a factor in the decision.[/quote]

Maybe, or maybe in order to manage the  30,000 they received last year, they make hard decisions easier by letting the numbers  make the decisions. [/quote]

That's just not how it happens at highly selective schools because it doesn't add any value in shaping the class.[/quote]

Agree. That's so much more that went into a decision than a 0.01 difference in GPA.

Heck, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that given 50,000 applications, if a committee of the same AOs meet 10 times where each time they choose 4,000 applicants to admit and retain no memory after that, 10 very different sets of 4,000 applicants would be admitted. A small number of super strong applicants would be in the intersection of these 10 sets, but many would be in only a few of them, and most would be in none. There is a lot of randomness in the process.[/quote]

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