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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know if it worked but we did it this year.  DS asserts that one particular Ivy seemed to be the school of choice in his class this year (Dartmouth).  He did the math, looked at the candidates and decided that, while it was his first choice, if he were the admissions director, he would pick one or more of the other candidates.  So he moved on to a different target.  As i said, we won't know how that works out,  but I did take some comfort in a rumor on an admissions website that Dartmouth had a material spike in ED applicant this year.[/quote]

I’m sorry, but this is a terrible approach to take when it comes to college admissions.  Your kid walked away from his first choice college based on the baseless proposition that he would be compared with his high school classmates rather than the overall applicant pool AND based on imperfect and incomplete information about his high school classmates’ applications.  [/quote]

Not PP, but totally disagree. Students are absolutely compared to others from not only their school but their region...so kids from DMV. PP's kid sounds super savvy to me. And before you tell me I'm wrong, I have a good friend in admissions at top 10 school who has told me this is 100% true.[/quote]

Lol ok.  You realize you just contradicted yourself right?  If an applicant is being compared to the whole region regardless, why does it matter that he may also be compared to his classmates?

My good friend told me so![/quote]

I didn't contradict myself at all. Kids are most directly compared to other students from their school, and then to students from the region (simply meaning they don't want too many kids from DMV, NYC area, Bay area, etc). You can doubt me all you want, but I was told this is one of the most important factors to consider in deciding where to apply. Go ahead and not believe me, but why would I make this up? Just sounds like you don't want to hear this b/c your kid decided to apply to a school along w/ many others from same high school...[/quote]

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