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But the point is that it is a lot easier to be in the 2% at Wheaton than it is at Whitman. If you are a highly motivated and high achieving student at Wheaton you are going to stand out. Big fish, small pond. It's the same at Wilson where there is little overall competition for the high achievers relative to a W school.[/quote]

No, we don't have enough info to answer this one way or the other. You're assuming the top is really thin at Wheaton and an ambitious kid can scoot to the top of the 10 other Wheaton kids who are applying to highly selective colleges. But what if 50 Wheaton kids are vying for highly selective colleges? Does a kid have a better chance trying to be in the 1-2% of Wheaton's 50 competitive kids, or trying to get into the top 10% of Whitman's 200 kids who are vying for highly selective colleges? Leaving aside how much of this depends on the particular kid, neither you nor I has the data to answer this.

Also, don't assume that colleges are oblivious to the fact that a high GPA might be partially the result of attending a school with an easier grading curve. Besides, the GPA is more like a basic threshold for applying to Yale, as opposed to being the key to acceptance at Yale. There are so many other factors that are independent of the high school, like your SATs and many ECs that, at the highly competitive level, take place outside of high school. [/quote]

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