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[quote=Anonymous]Are you trying to determine which schools are the hardest? Which are most prestigious? What curriculum offers the most rigor? These are all different questions. Rigor refers to taking the highest level of courses in each core subject that your school offers. It is school specific and you are compared to your classmates at your school based on what is offered. This is determined by the AO using the school profile and knowledge of the school. Kids are not penalized for not taking what their school doesn’t offer. That said, are there “better” schools? Absolutely. Can a kid with top grades and rigor from a less rigorous school get in a top school? Absolutely. Will the college make multiple offers to kids at that school? Usually not. So a kid at Sidwell or TJ or xxx “top” school has a better chance based on the college going deeper in the class with offers BUT it can be much more difficult due to the sheer number of high achieving kids. You see this play out over and over at schools like TJ where kids with a 4.3 are denied UVA but would have been top kids at their home school. But are they better prepared due to the rigor they undertook at TJ? Almost always. [/quote]

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