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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GPA is meaningless. That's not me saying that. That's the Dean of Admission at UVA. What they really like to know is class rank. If a student is getting significantly outperformed in high school, that student is clearly not top tier eligible. Counselor letters seem to be a way to provide backdoor rank info for those high schools that do not provide it. Let the games begin. And there is no doubt that certain colleges have a track record of taking more (or fewer kids) from particular high schools. [/quote] If true, it would follow that the path to top tier eligibility would be finding the school with the least competitive student body so that you could reach the top rank most easily. It's not that simple. Private schools in particular have a track record of feeding students to SLACs that know that school well. There are exceptions each year, but the year over year trends seldom change. [/quote]
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