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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether a college is intense depends a lot on the HS you came from. Some colleges love specific high schools bc the kids from there tend to thrive and transition well to their campus culture.

If you check Naviance and see kids from your HS applying to a college every year but none ever gets in, that tells you 1) they likely wont accept your kid either and 2) even if your kid gets in, they may not be a great fit. These admissions officers have been doing this for decades and have seen 100k+ files, they know more than we do. Take their lead.  [/quote]

Truth, and depends on the kid. Two kids from the same high school who took different rigor could end up with one finding William and Mary easy and one finding it overwhelmingly intense. Same is true of more notorious "intense" schools such as ivy/MIT/JHU. This is where it can help to have been a parent who attended the same or a similar school, and one who understands their own kid's level of academic potential relative to the peer group at the schools they are considering. We have one thriving at Penn, finds it academically intense in an invigorating collaborative way, not at all "cutthroat".  We will be more than gently DIScouraging the younger one from applying to Penn or any T10. Even if he got in, which he could with his stats, it would not be a fit for him. He needs to be somewhere he stands out a bit from the pack. [/quote]

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