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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another post has a link to the college acceptances over the last three years at Harvard-Westlake.  A whopping 59 of 62 applicants got into Kenyon, way more than any other better known LAC.  This confirms what I’ve said all along: it’s a rich kid school and it’s a second choice for everyone.[/quote]

Harvard-Westlake produces high-achieving students and has high average SAT and ACT scores that would make the average H-W student attractive to Kenyon. If Harvard-Westlake is funneling kids into Kenyon, it's probably because the school counselors are getting positive feedback from their Kenyon matriculants, and a school like that probably has pretty good school counselors. [/quote]

Nope.  At Amherst it was 6 of 33.  At UVA 12 of 62.  At Notre Dame 2 of 19.  Even at Michigan it’s 87 of 210.  The list goes on.  The “average” H-W student isn’t getting into these schools.  Also, it isn’t just the “average” H-W student getting into Kenyon.  It’s virtually all of them!
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To be clear, those numbers are unhooked applicants.
I would also point out that Oberlin admitted 18/21 applicants from HW over a three-year period.
The Amherst numbers are skewed by the fact that a. top HW students rarely apply there and b. those who matriculate tend to be athletes. 
In any case, it is quite clear that Kenyon takes everyone from HW, and those that matriculate to Kenyon will be from the bottom half (at least) of a typical HW class. 
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