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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s roughly 400 kids graduating from DCs school this year.  The top kids have been in the same classes all 4 years and know each other’s ranking and test scores.  The top 2% of graduating class (8 kids) all had 4.0 uw and 1500+ SATs.  This is how acceptances went for them:

1. Carnegie Mellon (shut out of Ivies)
2. UMD (shut out of Ivies and top SLACs)
3. UMD (shut out of Ivies)
4. Johns Hopkins (recruited athlete)
5. Yale (first gen)
6. UMD
7. Penn (first gen)
8. Princeton (URM)

All great, hard working, top scores, excellent EC kids, but like PP said there just isn’t enough room for all high achievers at the tippy top.[/quote]

I'm confused.  This is a list of 8 top colleges.  Well, 6 since once is there 3 times.  So, every kid in the top 2% of your kid's high school got into a top school.  [/quote]

Agree. This list by PP is impressive and doesn’t really illustrate the point OP was trying to make. [/quote]

Disagree - 37.5% attended the state flagship. And while UMD may be a great school it is not elite academically/socially/etc. A Princeton/Yale/Penn grad will have doors opened for them that a UMD grad will never experience. 
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So you’re saying that the kids with the top 10 GPAs in every high school should be entitled to an Ivy League admission? The numbers simply don’t add up. [/quote]

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