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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very tough for this to kid get into any of the listed schoold except they have a chance at Cornell and Chicago if they ED. Even for a top private the GPA is too low and while 4.0 is rare at these schools many are clustered around 3.7 or 3.8 so this kid is at 50th percentile (roughly). Rigor and EC will not matter without raw GPA and strong hook. Put gpa and profile with school name in chatgpt and see what it says about rough class rank. [/quote]

This post is super smart.
At these top privates, GPAs are in a pretty narrow range because much of the class was a top academic kid to get into the school and academic stragglers are counseled out along the way or leave for better fit.

80 kids in the class. 
Highest GPA in the class: generally 3.95-3.98
80% percentile: 3.9 (the general cum laude cut off which becomes public knowledge) <---the 15 kids above this are most of your unhooked top20s
50% percentile: ~3.65 (announced by college counseling)
0%: ~3.0 (almost zero kids graduate below a 3.0)

So a 3.8 becomes the 70% percentile in the class and a 3.7 becomes around the 60%. There isn't an equal distribution so this isn't an exact science but it's pretty accurate. That's why 3.7's struggle with top20 admissions. They're literally at the 60th percentile, maybe below.  And they're competing against the 35 applicants or 40% of kids from their own school who have better grades.

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This isn’t our grade distribution. If 40% of the class enrolls at aT25, your rubric fails.

- non-DMV private [/quote]

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