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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  About the private school hooked kids ...
The hooked ones get in in ED.  Every year you see mid-stats or TO kids showing up on instagram when ED is out.

More unhooked ones get in in RD.  And no, there are plenty of unhooked kids getting in T20 schools.  Grades is only one data point, other parts of the application including ECs and essays weigh a lot too.[/quote]

Disagree with your confidence as a parent of 2024 and 2025 kids from a top private.  RD can be a bloodbath for kids like OPs (decent but not top top% from a top private.) My kid was this kid last year and they were outright rejected RD from Vanderbilt, Northwestern Northwestern (not surprising--these schools have like a 95% rejection rate in RD) and waitlisted at places like BC and Emory (possible yield protection on the BC side).  RD is TOUGH. [/quote]
Each private high school may be different.  Vandy is near impossible for unhooked at our school even for top kids, so no one is even applying there RD.  But we do send a bunch unhooked to selected school including Cornell and Penn.  Our counselors every year are busy steering in the ED stage.  Good results.[/quote]

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