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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Because until you go through this process with your kid you naively think that you can make sense out of it by comparing stats. [/quote]  This is 100% correct. I feel sorry for parents still caught in this mindset because it leads to a lot of animosity and heartbreak. Encourage your your kid do their best and use the CDS' to make your list. [/quote]

Yes!  If you go into the process thinking about how to present your best self and use publically available stats to see if you are in range of the school you are interested in, you have a shot.

Knowing what a school seems to be looking for as averages is critically important to know if your application is going to be tossed because you aren't in range.  Knowing what the threshold scores of kids from your school were for successful admittance, will give you even better information.  But understanding the scores of my kid gives you almost no information about how your kid will do.  If she had a 1570 SAT but two B+ along with 12 APs, how does that help you compare to your kid who had no B+, a 1530 and 11 APs?  Does the fact that one of these kids played in travel soccer but the other in marching band, but neither had won a math olympiad really help?  No it does not.

Tell your kids to put in the effort to take as hard classes as they can.  Keep their grades up.  Do well on standardized tests.  And then after than, write an application that tells the school who he or she is as a person.  This will be the best they can do.  [/quote]

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