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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That your kid's top stats (grades, rigor, and scores) will be reconsidered by the committee as part of the AO committee's holistic review; and that those top-tier stats will add a bump to your kid's application.

[reality - the grades/rigor/scores get you to the room, then are never looked at again. It's about everything else][/quote]
My understanding has always been that your stats can get you put in a different stack for consideration with different standards.  For example, stats above 75% may put you in a pile where 2/3 of those in the stack get offers, while stats below 25% may mean that only 1/20 in that pile get offers (so you'd need some extraordinary factor).  Those with hooks end up sorted into different stacks entirely.

Back in the day these were literal stacks.  Now they're figurative because everything is virtual.[/quote]

Nope. Definitely not.

It’s based on a point system. For example, at Harvard to 33 and a 36 get you the same point. So I want you to extrapolate and think how different these stacks really are. The biggest points actually come in the other categories. You would do best to familiarize yourself with how these things are scored in the modern era.[/quote]

I don’t agree with this, at the two privates my kids attend, admissions closely follow class rank and test scores.  If a kid is top stats but really weak ecs, then they might not do as well as other kids with same stats, but it is very correlated with stats. They don’t officially rank, but clearly elite schools know how to read transcripts and the named awards.[/quote]

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