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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU  23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10  85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students.  My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.  [/quote]

What high school is this? [/quote]

PP is a troll.  What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools?  Total BS.[/quote]

The key element was for kids like my daughter:  4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison.  The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me.  I imagine they processed the scattergrams.[/quote]

I call BS.  There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).  [/quote]

I was excluding UNC and Duke.  
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Gotcha.  So you just went through and excluded colleges that disproved your point?  What other colleges did you exclude as inconvenient?  For example— most schools have a 95% admit rate to VA State schools with a 4.2/1300 PSAT— if you exclude UVA/ WM.  The 90% admit rate to Big 10 didn’t happen to exclude U of Michigan Enginineering and Northwestern, did it? Did you exclude Berkeley and UCLA from the PAC 10?

Because, yes, Madison’s college admissions rates are as good as TJs if you just ignore the best schools with the lowest admssions rates. Smh. [/quote]

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