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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do you not have naviance scattergrams?  There's really no way for people on this board to guess at chances.  My feeling is that Dartmouth is the easiest of the three.  But it's a gut feeling.  (I think Duke is hardest.)
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naviance doesn't have much data since it's a small school. There has been no acceptances at Dartmouth RD. Not sure if that is because they dislike our school or that they have already admitted legacies  and are done admitting from our school. [/quote]

That’s bizarre that you would think that they “dislike” your school rather than jumping to the more obvious conclusion that your tiny private didn’t produce competitive candidates for a highly competitive university.  [/quote]

Some colleges just don't like certain high schools. Back in my day I remember my competitive public high school had some admissions patterns that made absolutely no sense and no one would get into certain schools - if I recall Amherst hated us - kids would get into Williams, Harvard, Yale but rejected by Amherst. Very odd.[/quote]

And you attributed that to “hate” by a particular admissions office to your public high school, rather than realizing that  Amherst is a tiny, highly competitive liberal arts college with an undergrad student body 1/4 the size of Harvard’s?  Your conclusion is…very odd.  [/quote]

NP this happens. Our public HS college counselor says this about one ivy. Never accepted someone from our school ever. My friend’s kid is at a feeder private HS outside the DMV area. Their college counselor says Yale doesn’t really accept kids from their school. Kids apply annually and get into other places but not Yale. [/quote]

NP. Also from a public HS. No one ever gets into Harvard/Yale from our school unless legacy + some other hook (athlete, URM, etc.) My kid was probably the first unhooked student in decades to be admitted to Harvard. I have seen younger students who tried to get into the same activities/competitions/etc but their level of accomplishment was not enough, and not one student has managed to do ALL the activities as my kid did — you need a certain energy to be able to go all out. No one has been accepted after my kid. TLDR; sometimes Ivies do not accept kids from a particular high school because they simply are not competitive enough. [/quote]

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