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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have seen so many normal smart, top of class kids who could have been admitted at great schools like Emory, Pomona or even Cornell but overshot during ED/EA for schools like top Ivies and Williams and wasted their ED. They ended up getting rejected/waitlisted everywhere during RD for schools they should have ED'ed, waited for the WL to clear all the way til July and they never cleared. [/quote]
Emory, Pomona, Williams, Cornell are all about the same. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins are better examples. [/quote]
Same what? Pomona has a lower overall acceptance rate than Northwestern and JHU. (A decade ago, its acceptance rate was also lower than Duke, but Duke has gotten a lot more popular recently.) Personally, I think Williams' acceptance rate is slightly higher only because of it's location leads to more self-selection of the academically qualified. And admission to Cornell's CS or Engineering programs is probably more selective than any program offered by any of the schools you mentioned.[/quote]

Slightly wrong.

Pomona class of 2028: 6.6%

SAT range: 1480 and 1560

JHU: 6.2%

SAT Range: 1530 - 1570

NU: 7.5%

SAT range: 1490 to 1580

I'd say JHU and NU's CS and Biomed programs are way harder as well (comparable to CS at Cornell)[/quote]

My unhooked kid got into Pomona, Hopkins and an Ivy RD last year. He did not have any incredible ECS, fairly standard.  He did write some amazing essays and likely had great recs in addition to the gpa and test scores. He did not ED anywhere.  In our circle, kids did much better in the RD rounds than early last year and there was a ton of WL movement as well.

So I’d say not “under shooting” is a concern. [/quote]

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