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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably outdated here on some of these but here’s some wild guesses:

UMiami
Tulane 
GWU
Syracuse 
Hobart and William Smith
Connecticut College
U of Vermont
Trinity College
Penn State
Hampden-Sydney
Mount Holyoke[/quote]

Tulane had an admit rate for the '25 class of 9.73%. They dropped their honors college because the caliber of student is growing by leaps and bounds. [/quote]

Tulane's SATs look really stellar, but they became SAT optional a few years ago--any word on how many student actually submit SATs there?[/quote]

This list is dead on for “schools rich families won’t be embarrassed to send their kids.  Add all SEC schools, Sewanee, UC Boulder TCU and SMU - lots of different levels of students at these schools with a rich undercurrent. [/quote]
Hmm...probably depends on the family and area of the country? And political/religious leanings? I can't see most parents of a bottom-of-the-class Sidwell or GDS kid being all too enthused about Alabama or Mississippi State or Ole Miss or Arkansas or LSU. [b]I feel like those kids are more likely to go to like...Denison.[/b] [/quote]

Denison has a 29% acceptance rate. Bottom of the class (even at Sidwell or GDS) isn't guaranteed to get in there anymore.[/quote]

[b]What you’re missing is that’s the average between RD and ED. For ED it’s much higher. Add in test optional + attending boarding schools that don’t do class rank[/b] (my public high school would put on your transcript whether you were ranked #1 or #500) and it’s not hard to understand. [/quote]

PP you're responding to, and I'm not missing anything. I went to a boarding school that "didn't rank", which means that they did rank, they just didn't tell us our exact rank, nor did they tell colleges. But they would give a range, or a chart of GPA vs. rank percentiles. I know I was in the top half, but not the top quarter of the class, and I guarantee that colleges knew that as well. And test optional means that grades matter *more*, not less, so it's not really helpful for a kid with mediocre grades.

Also, I know no one who is going to a school like Sidwell or GDS who is using their one shot at ED on... Denison.[/quote]

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