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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this article, I am shocked that only 14k of the 20k OOS applicants have above a 1310 SAT when the average GPA was a 3.92 by their calculation.

My kid has a 1410 and I was told they were basically cooked at Georgia (but loved the school and wanted to try).[/quote]

I mean less than 1/4 OOS applicants get in, why are you surprised that they in fact do not have the credentials to be sure they'll get in, given that we expect that pool of applicants mostly to, in fact, not get in?[/quote]

Bc I was told that having credentials would not lead to admissions so I assumed a much larger share of denied applicants had equal credentials.  [/quote]

And by equal credentials, assume you mean:

- excellent violin / cello or piano
- science olympiad 
- 4.0
- high SAT
- spelling bee.

Tons of these cookie-cutter kids out there.[/quote]

The applicant pool is weak. So,

EITHER the applicant pool is weak, and scores don’t affect admissions, so the whole school is weak,

OR the applicant pool is weak, but scores do affect admissions, so the school is actually reasonably strong.

You can’t have it both ways. [/quote]

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