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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on your specific high school!! [/quote]

It definitely does not.  Two schools, Emory and Wash U, have ED1 acceptance rates double or TRIPLE OR MORE other schools in the T25.  [/quote]

WashU requires HIGHER stats from our private than a half dozen schools ranked higher.  It doesn't matter what WashU's national acceptance rate it, it matters which students it takes FROM YOUR SCHOOL.

They routinely require a 3.95.  Duke will take kids in the 3.8s.  Cornell will go down to 3.7.  FROM OUR HIGH SCHOOL.  Your school is probably different.  Every school is different.

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This actually is likely demonstrable false.  Wash U takes 35 percent of kids ED1 and Duke takes 11 or 12 percent.  There is no way Wash U has a more competitive applicant pool than Duke.  You are likely looking at stats that include hooked kids at one school but not the other, and it sounds like your high school doesn’t do well placing kids at top school or you are fibbing.[/quote]

First, WashU's ED1 and ED2 combined acceptance rate is 25%.

2nd, if WashU accepts basically all 3.95+ GPA kids that apply ED and accepts almost none 3.8...but Duke accepts a much higher %age of 3.8 kids ED and rejects a much higher %age of 3.95 kids (compared to WashU)...then in fact the 3.8 kid would correctly take their shot at Duke vs. WashU.

Conversely, the 3.95 kid (who I guess wants certainty of attending a Top 25 school) would pick WashU.

I guess PP knows these facts for their school.[/quote]

The combined rate of 25 percent is entirely consistent with an ED1 acceptance rate of 35 percent and an ED2 around 12.

But let’s be real, pp ais likely  a pissed off Wash U parent.  I have no dog in this fight and Duke is a much harder admit at our privates than wash u at every stage of  admissions (have kids at two single sex schools), which is what you would expect given the relative rankings, acceptance rates  and popularity of the two schools.[/quote]

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