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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid has a fabulous profile:
- feeder private HS (this is a huge plus)
- humanities boy (another plus, depending on major)
- best in school EC
- best in school LOR (wow- this is big)
- 1550 ACT (great!)
- regional awards

Ok, so what classes were the lower grades in? If only Spanish, I'd still aim (strategically) for T10 with an ED (Penn (CAS); Northwestern, Duke (maybe - depending on your school data)) or Brown.

Depending on the major, I think this kid gets into Cornell RD, WashU RD, and maybe Rice RD (make sure to show demonstrated interest). Not getting into Vanderbilt unless ED2. Maybe one other Ivy in RD, if very well thought out application.

Your ED choice is extremely important. But no one outside your school can advise you because we can't see your Naviance/Maia/SCOIR. 
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I generally agree with this. Except to note that ED2 at Vanderbilt is a bit of a sham. They take very few students in ED2 - just a few students that may have been rejected at HYPS in the SCEA round. If you're going to apply to Vandy, do ED1 or save it for the RD lottery if it's not the first choice.

But otherwise, this is a good profile. Class president presumably at a top private feeder. 1550. The GPA is good enough. I'd think Stanford, Northwestern, Vandy, Rice, Penn, Chicago, Brown, Cornell, Duke, WashU and Notre Dame are all in the target range.

HYP are pretty useless schools these days unless incredibly hooked. Real talent goes elsewhere anyway so wouldn't stress about that. I think the real issue is where to apply early.  
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I agree with you about ED2 at Vandy.
I dont agree that real talent goes elsewhere (re HYP)
I'm surprised you and a couple other have Stanford in the mix and HYP as out. At our feeder, HYP is in the mix and Stanford is out. But that's anecdata from one school so, like I said, surprised. Interesting[/quote]

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