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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few more A minuses will really decrease the overall GPA and therefore the acceptances (from a top private--I don't know the public world).

My child had about half A minuses, half As and an overall GPA of 3.84.  He did significantly worse in admissions than kids who had fewer A minuses and an overall 3.94. 
My kid: into places like Michigan, UCLA, Emory, WashU.  Denied at lower ivies, etc. 
3.94 kids: HYP and other top 15s.

I'm not going to share specific extracurriculars but my kid's were really good.  Applied as a humanities major, had a narrative, testing was over the threshold (35), etc. The GPA (more A minuses) was really a huge differentiator. [/quote]

I agree with this, most top schools still rely primarily on gpas, within a range.  Top ten percent of class, based in weighted gpa, is going to have a different range of acceptances than second tenth.[/quote]

Yes.  If you are applying from a top private, your results depend a LOT on who else is applying from your school and what their grades are.  My kid applied with a 3.88 and didn't get in any of the top15 schools where the 3.95+ kids (yes, we're 10+ of them, even from a Big3 private) applied but did get into the one Ivy that no higher ranked kids applied to.  [/quote]

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