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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TO has to be TO, at least for this year, based on the admissions this fall/winter. It has seemed like anything submitted under a 1550 is considered worse than TO, both for admission and for merit awards/honors colleges. My daughter has friends that have gotten in TO to Yale, Brown, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Duke, Northwestern, Bowdoin, and Notre Dame and that’s just off the top of my head. So hard to know how to proceed with a current junior. [/quote]

how does your junior know that many seniors' college admissions results as well as their testing status? And then comes home and tells you? Just wondering how this works. [/quote]

Our school isn’t that big. Are your juniors not close with seniors? And we’re in CT, not California. [/quote]

Not close enough to know if kids submitted test scores.  I asked my senior who is super social with a group of maybe 6 very close friends and a dozen close friends and she said "I have no idea what my friends scored, we don't talk about GPAs or scores."
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This sounds odd to me but it also sounds very healthy! My kids’ school basically becomes a war zone on the first day of junior year and everyone knows everyone else’s grades, rigor, test scores and what schools they apply to. It’s literally all they talk about and I hate it so much. It’s so unhealthy. My kids are in 9th and 11th grades and if I had know what junior year was like I would have sent my younger daughter elsewhere. But that being said, we do have tons of admissions info because of the environment. [/quote]

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