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[quote=Anonymous]I think a big part of the problem is that people look at their kids scores/grades and if they are in the "top quartile" for the a given school (based on recent data) they assume they have a "good shot." Maybe they do have a "good shot"- if "good shot" means better than the overall rate for that school. But that is not the same as thinking it's good enough to make it a target or safety school. Suppose a school has an 15 percent acceptance rate, what does having a "good shot" mean? Well, that 15 percent rate is a total rate--maybe it's 40 percent for ED and 8 percent for EA/RD. If your kid applied EA/RD, now you're upper quartile kid is looking at maybe a 10 percent shot? Anyone who gets denied facing a predicted 10 percent acceptance rate and cries "yield protection" really isn't being honest with themselves.[/quote]
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