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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in college admissions at a top 15 liberal arts college. With similar test scores and similar programs, Kid x who is in the bottom half of the top 20% at a W school is not getting in while kid y who is in the top 10% at Wheaton IS getting in. [/quote]

At a top 15 LAC, a kid in the top 10% at Wheaton would still have a very low shot of getting in. Get real.  It's not a school exactly bursting with high achievers. [/quote]

You're wrong. It's the Yale or jail phenomenon. Colleges like to see high performers (with objectively good scores on SATs and APs) come out of less than stellar schools because it speaks to initiative, persistence and helps to diversify their acceptance pool. No college or university likes admit too many students from any one particular school so there is somewhat of a penalty for kids at W schools who aren't the absolute best and the brightest. [/quote]

So true!  That's why so many W. kids whose parents foresee they will not be at the tippy top send to privates!  Bright kids -- why penalize them for their parents' bad decision to buy in a W.[/quote]

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