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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have. [/quote]

That kid took away spots from other TJ students. [/quote]

That's not how that works.  [/quote]

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school. [/quote]

I am the PP you are responding to - I agree there is nothing wrong with very strong students applying to multiple top colleges. Things are too unpredictable now so very few kids are really a sure thing. But the top colleges don't want too many kids from TJ so one kid getting into multiple top colleges likely did result in other kids not getting in. That doesn't mean the kid with multiple acceptances did anything wrong. And that kid with multiple acceptances can still only attend one school so it will all wash out in the end.

There’s nothing wrong with a kid applying to both MIT and Harvard. Many TJ kids and other kids from all over the world apply to BOTH. This TJ kid that got into all the top schools (HYPSM+Caltech and Duke) was accepted through RD. Not early action. With college admissions being so unpredictable, it is not unheard of to get into just one of those and more likely to be rejected from them all. This kid just got extremely lucky and has something colleges find compelling. [/quote][/quote]

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