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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a Big 3 school where a 3.8 gpa would put you at the top of the class and kids with those stats routinely get into the schools you mention.  I'd go for it.  The counselor are very risk averse and eager to get kids settled early.[/quote]

Ditto. My child is at SFS, and that GPA (given a rigorous course load) is in the top 10% - or would be if they calculated GPA and rank! ? The admissions percentages that a PP gave for the top colleges was not correct however. Harvard has a 3-4% regular admission rate! but this past year it was 23% early action. Princeton was 25% or so early action! UPenn is notorious for being some years close to 30% early decision! more for Cornell. All things being equal, 2200 SATs are not high for those schools, but not unrealistic. Especially if he applies early. UPenn also gives financial aid packages that kids don't have to pay back because their endowment is outrageous. Not merit based, just need based.

And whether folks on this site want to admit it or not, there is a Big 3 and it actually does matter to a lot of college recruiters. A lot of schools like to be seen as feeders from top area prep schools. Since not many kids in each of the top DC schools make NMSF with a cut off of 224, whose to say how many kids are really much over 2200-2250 when they apply to college. Your son is first generational to college and a Latino? My kid gets neither - no check the boxes - and unfortunately gets held to a higher standard. All this being said, a family exposed Madeira school years ago because they were refusing to give kids recommendations to schools they didn't approve of, because they were trying to go for 100% kids getting into their first choice school. This stuff happens. 
Parents need to go with their guts in the end.

+1. That saved me some typing! :)[/quote]

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