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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]0 chance at Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona, and Claremont McKenna. Not even worth bothering applying to these. All are in the selectivity ballpark of the Ivies and equivalent. They do not admit B students unless it's a highly grade deflated school they're familiar with.

Middlebury, Carleton, Davidson, Wellesley, Washington and Lee, Vassar, Haverford, Wesleyan would be reaches. If D really likes one or multiple, strongly encourage ED1 or ED2.

[b]Other SLACs in the top 50 (Grinnell, Bates, Colgate, Scripps, Kenyon, etc) are matches.[/b]

Let go of the Amherst obsession and be realistic. Many of the attainable reaches are just as good as Amherst, and many have a similar culture. [/quote]

I wouldn't call Grinnell a match with your daughter's record.  It has less then a 20 percent acceptance rate for women, its mid 50 percent ACT range is 30-33, and says it pays more attention to the rigor of the student's classes and grades than test scores.  The typical Grinnell student definitely gets more As than Bs in high school.

Grinnell also jumped up in the US News rankings to number 11, placing it well higher than the other schools on your match list, and say what you want about the rankings -- Grinnell is likely to see an increase in applications as a result.

You are full pay, though, and you'll get a bump for that.  That should make you feel good, right?

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