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[quote=pbraverman][quote=Anonymous]Understanding Admissions —- to the degree it’s possible —- requires you to look at this from the perspective of the school.

On any campus, there are different constituencies that Admissions has to serve. The CFO wants full classes and the tuition revenue associated with that. The coaches want athletes. The Drama department wants people interested in Theater. The faculty wants smart, hard-working kids. The Alumni want their kids and their friends admitted. And the list of constituencies goes on.

Above all, they don’t want problem kids or problem parents. They are expected to screen these out.

Admissions has to serve all these constituencies. and they have to maintain relationships over a period
Of years with schools that supply them applicants.

Admissions is going to be judged based on the satisfying the needs of almost everyone on campus.

From the outside the process looks capricious and unfair. But to the school, it’s rational. [/quote]

This.

If parents understand only one thing about the admission process, it should be: THERE IS NO FORMULA. I've worked with kids who have SSAT scores in the teens who were offered admission at the most competitive schools in the DC area. I've worked with kids with SSATs in the upper 90s who were rejected. (In those rejection cases, I was not surprised, as there were serious flaws in their candidacies that were not directly related to grades or scores.)

Those simple facts should make it apparent that grades and scores do not tell the whole story, and my consistent experience is that — assuming a student's grades and scores are in the broad range of those among students who are accepted — the bulk of parents overestimate the importance of scores and grades in the process.[/quote]

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