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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the elephant in the room is that a good chunk of the very top students are “stranded”.  They are doing less well than the bottom 85% of the class.  Yield protected at likelies/matches and not into any SCEA or ED.  Sidwell needs an explicit strategy for these kids.  It’s not to late to advocate for this group imo.  No entitlement here at all.  I don’t think CCO gets the macro picture here.  These kids had safeties but safeties are not acting like safeties for this high performing group.  [/quote]

So, here's the thing...EVERY kid should have applied to a real safety school with rolling admission or EA (think UVM, Pitt, Penn State...maybe Wisconsin or Indiana)...it is hard for me to believe that very top students from SFS applied to these types of schools and did not get in.  More likely, they decided that University of Michigan or Northeastern was their "safety" ...but anyone who has been paying attention over the past few years knows that these schools have become VERY competitive (and unpredictable) over the past few years. If these students were depending on such schools to be their backups and are "stranded" right now, that does not seem to be the fault of the CCOs (unless the CCOs were giving very bad advice--which is hard for me to believe, as a parent of a "top student" at another Big 3)...

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False. Well qualified seniors have been rejected or WL from UVM.[/quote]

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