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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I have an 3.5 student at a Big 3 with significant sports/activities and generally rigorous classes.  Likely merit semifinalist and SAT 2300.  Are the Ivies out of range?  Even with legacy status?   I want to be practical about the admissions process.[/quote]

Honestly, yes.[/quote]

What information are you working with?  3.5 GPA with a rigorous class load puts you in the upper third of the class at Sidwell.  The SATs that you quote are above median for every college in the country, with the possible exception of Caltech.  Well rounded kid with strong support from the school - through teacher recs and college counseling push - will have a decent chance at most Ivies (perhaps not H and Y, possibly P).  Legacy status would break the tie.  This sounds like most of the kids that Sidwell sends to Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell etc.[/quote]

Further, many of the top GPA students at Sidwell end up at places like Swarthmore, Berkeley, UChicago, Haverford, Franklin Olin College, Tufts. The Ivy league schools are not everyone's cup of tea. It would be a mistake to think that if a quarter of the class goes to Ivies (roughly correct) that these are by definition the top students in the class as measured by GPA and that if you are not in the top quarter they would be out of reach.[/quote]

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