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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few thoughts from another private school parent-

If your school is pushing slacs, your kid is not as strong an applicant as you think in the current admissions environment.  Private schools still have very strong feeder relationships with slacs so they are promoting these schools because that’s where they think she has the best chance of admittance.  Given this, you are likely aiming too high with the bigger universities.  Probably should be looking at schools like Tulane, BU, NE, Wisco, maybe Miami.  These schools all strongly prefer applicants who ED.

You don’t mention test scores.  Unhooked private school students often can get away with being test optional at slacs.  The T25 universities for the most part are going to want to see test scores from this demographic.

What is the extracurricular that you think sets her apart?

OP Here 
PP I think you are right about why College office is pushing SLAC's. But they are pushing HARD SLAc's with low admit rates- Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury which seems weird, but as you say, maybe they care less about scores

DC may go test optional despite SUPER high GPA. Her SAT is just OK 1480-1500 ish. Wonder about if we should submit or not- I know at high reaches those scores are low.
I can't name extra curricular bc it's identifying, but it may help at some schools and it's unusual so it's sort of a wild card that might make a difference at the tippy top places.

I agree ED one at the Emory/Tufts/Georgetown  level has been a successful strategy for high stats big 3 kids.  ED 1 for unhooked kids at Ivies/Duke/Stanford is throwing away the ED advantage- do folks agree?

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Op, this is the poster you were responding to above.  Our private gets kids who are not at the tip top of the class, but near the top, into Middlebury and Swarthmore ED,   agree that Williams would be a harder admit.

Emory and Tufts had over a 30 percent ED acceptance rate this year (in contrast to schools like Duke, Vandy and Georgetown which were around 15 percent or below).  If your student is interested in these schools, ED would be an excellent choice .  Same goes for Wash U if that is of interest, very high ED acceptance rate compared to RD.

I would submit her scores everywhere.  They aren’t going to put her over the top, but I think they help more than they hurt.[/quote]

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