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[quote=Anonymous][quote]a thing to keep in mind is that the specific way in which the CCO decided to define reach and mid-level schools makes the limited access (as we experienced it) especially frustrating as kids are trying to finalize their list. When we were finally able to look at a few scattergrams, [b]we saw that for one of the schools categorized as “reach,” almost all Sidwell students in recent years with similar plots to our DC were accepted. Same thing with a mid-level school that was virtually 100% admit. [/b]Of course there are no sure things or guarantees and anyone who interpreted scattergrams in that way would be pretty dumb. But[b] given the really unhelpful way that the CCO defines reaches, the scattergrams could be an especially helpful tool to look at earlier in the process than we were able to do [/b]with DC as we worked to refine the list.[/quote]

PP parent you're talking to.  I completely agree with the bolded and we saw similar data with a couple of schools that interested DC.  Our family (ok, one parent of two) took those past years with a hefty grain of salt though, because we (I) knew that many green dots were 1) pre-pandemic and 2) pre-test optional and 3) pre- the national higher ed shift in admission priorities.

Conversely, the "nobody from here gets in for some reason" scatterplots were actually more useful -- particularly early in the process, as you point out.  [/quote]

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