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[quote=Anonymous]Close to 4 million kids will graduate high school this year. If you look at the top 20 schools they will take about 40,000 freshmen. That is 1% of graduating seniors will go to a T20 school. My DCs regular public school has 400 kids graduating this year. So the top 1% is 4 kids. Since the school provides class rank and DC has been in the same rigorous courses with the same top 30 students or so, they know where most kids fall on class rank, SAT scores, GPA, ECs, etc. The top 4 were accepted to MIT, JHU, Penn (ED) and Vanderbilt (still waiting on Ivy day). It’s the kids who are ranked 5-15 who are struggling. These are still 3.9-4.0, 1500+ SAT, with plenty of ECs, but they’re seeing a lot of WL and rejections. In at state school, but most are disappointed by that. We all think our kids are superstars (and they are), there’s just even bigger superstars out there. [/quote]
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