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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am OP and the school is not Duke! It is a small liberal arts college, ranked in the 40-50 range. [/quote]

So relieved!  Cuz Duke would have made you certifiably insane!

For the SLAC....
do you mean ranked 40-50 among SLACs? Like DePauw?
or 40-50 among national universities? Like Tulane?

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This is OP. This is a LAC ranked 40-50 among LACs, like a Dickinson. My DC’s stats place them well in the top 25th quartile for said college they like, it is a guess but probably in the top 5-10th percentage if that data was available. Doesn’t the fact you are asking, though, mean that you, too, make some value judgment about relative colleges? [/quote]

Ok---so 25% at Dickinson is 1383 SAT score.  That's still in the 91/91% of all students nationawide.  Not like your kid is picking a school where the 25% is 1000.  The difference between 90 and 98% is minimal.  [/quote]

I don't think most people fully appreciate how many students are in the top 10% of all students attending 4-year colleges and how many colleges can fill a class with those top students, especially considering that no school is only accepting top academic students to fill a class. The top 10% of academic students fill a very wide range of colleges. People seem to think that if they are in the top 10% of SATs/ACTs they should have a shot at the top 20 schools, and they do; however so do 1.4 million other students.

14.08 million students attend 4-year colleges. That means the top 10% of first years = 352,000 first years (note that all Ivies combined have only ~18,000 first years, or .005 of all first years attending 4-year colleges -- and none of them are taking only the top testing students of course). So when you are told that hundreds of colleges have a strong cohort of academic peers for your kid, it is true.[/quote]

I agree. It amazes me that most parents think it would be terrible for their "high stats kid" to be with those 5-8% below them in scores.  [/quote]

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