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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a HYP and interview in DC.

I can say that it's a total crapshoot for kids like your daughter--not a knock on her by any means, it's just the nature of the beast since there are so many applicants like her.

Why HYP though? Which among those is her dream school? And what are the other schools she is applying to?

I come from a really big family and so am familiar with the other HYP schools and I know they're very different.

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Yes re really different schools. I have degrees from two of these schools (and was shocked in real time re the differences). No interest in the third. Having also done admissions interviews for one of them (not H), I’d second PP’s crapshoot remark re chances of admission.

Your DD needs to decide which of these schools is her SCEA. If she’s truly indifferent, she could choose the one with the weakest legacy pool in her HS class. Maybe a better approach would be to compare programs/faculty in her preferred major(s). If you suggest the second path, it would also give her a way to start finding other schools she could get excited about.[/quote]

Agree. I'm the PP and my brother went to a different HYP school than I did two years before me and his experience was incredibly different even though we had similar majors. So just something to think about.

It's also helpful to know the OP's daughter's preferred school out of these and WHY that one is her absolute dream school because it will help her identify the other schools she should be applying to that offer similar environments/faculty in her major/opportunities/student life. For example, my brother and I applied to totally different lists of schools. [/quote]

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