<p>thanks - when I get some more time, I’ll check it out</p>
<p>ok, I’m not sure what i am feeling right now but I did manage to get into a town two away from here. It was the town in which I grew up so I knew the mascot. Other three towns did not have any visible naviance. Here is what I saw and MB you can shed some more light. For 2007-2008, his town for reference had 15 kids accepted to Harvard, MIT 5, Yale 3, Tufts 35, 1 princeton, 3 brown, 10 dartmouth, etc, etc. Our town is small and rather different. In the past 7 YEARS that I have paid attention I know 1 harvard, 1 MIT, 3 Tufts, 2 dartmouth. So how does daughter’s score work into this. We are physically very near this other town but in other ways we are not. So does she need their ACT/SAT scores or would she be compared differently? BTW got the SAT II Chem this AM. It was a 720. So Chem 720, Bio 780, ACT 33 w/ math TBD.</p>
<p>PS Tried 5 more towns - not much luck :'(</p>
<p>Smoda – One school had 15 Harvard acceptances in a single year? Good heavens! I would say that school is probably not comparable to yours unless the demographics are the same, but they’re just doing a far better job of presenting/placing their kids. Obviously that school is a H feeder, and that takes work by a good and sophisticated college counseling office. (That school, BTW, is not comparable to ANY school in my area. Even the very top high school in this area, one of the top ten publics in the country, got just 4 into H this year. But we are not in MA, so no HS in this area can qualify as a regional feeder to H.)</p>
<p>Here’s my suggestion. Since your D’s school does have some track record with the elites, I suggest that you and your D make an appointment to talk to your own school’s GC. Find out what kinds of grades and scores it has taken for non-hooked kids at your school to get into H and Dartmouth and Tufts, etc. That will give you some frame of reference on the most important level – the local level. But it does not sound like you live in a rural or economically disadvantaged area, where colleges will cut your daughter slack with respect to scores. Without knowing any more than you’ve posted, I’m still thinking she should retake.</p>
<p>At our HS, both the Harvard and Dartmouth were this year. One girl got into both and the second just Dartmouth. Both of those student would have academics slightly less than D’s but both were sought out for athletics. D will not have that in her favor.</p>
<p>I was also shocked about the 15 to Harvard. The second column said 12 were attending so it is not likely a typo.</p>
<p>BTW is the previous post I forgot, 2 Upenn, 2 offered admission of waitlist and 1 outright acceptance to Cornell.</p>
<p>PS I will talk to guidance but over the year’s I have found that I am often as well informed and sometimes better informed than they are. I doubt they are reachable over the summer but I may shoot off an e-mail.</p>
<p>silly CC switched the order of the posts again</p>
<p>Your school actually did a great job with top schools this year. How large was the class? You don’t have your own Naviance scattergrams or comparison tables?</p>
<p>if we have naviance, I could not find it, but I will ask in that e-mail</p>
<p>D’s class (next year) is about 179. I am assuming that this year’s is similar</p>
<p>For that “other” school, when I graduated 30 years ago our class was 411.</p>
<p>OMT the Upenns and Cornells were over past 7 years. Only harvard and Dartmouth this year.</p>
<p>OK, reviving my old thread. New ACT score came in this morning. D got a 35 this time :34E, 36M, 36R, 33S (with previous being 32E, 34M, 32R, 35S). Also, since our previous rounds of discussion (in June), D is 1 out of 184 in her class, got her Math II (790) and Math I (740) scores, and her AP scores Bio(5) and Chem(4) Anyone willing to update their viewpoints? OMT D did send in her SCEA application. Thanks</p>
<p>smoda: I didn’t read through the entire thread but congrats to your D for her great achievements. If others haven’t said so, I’d say she’s definitely a viable candidate, scores/grades wise. No small accomplishment. However, you’re also probably aware that Y is going to evaluate her with other measures as well. Given this, there’s no one who can reasonably predict yea/nay for you D. Best of luck to your family while you await the reply.</p>
<p>^^ Agree with T26. I just want to say, great job, smoda’s D! It was well worth sitting for the exam again.</p>
<p>Sort of similar question:</p>
<p>If I have a 2250 on the SAT but only a 32 on the ACT, Yale will only consider my much higher SAT score, right?</p>
<p>A 33 ACT composite puts her in the 99th percentile – as does a 34, 35 or 36. A 33 isn’t going to guarantee acceptance or rejection at Yale. I think she’s better off focusing on other things.</p>
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<p>That’s the 99th percentile nationally. Candidates, however, are evaluated in the context of the pool of test takers at each school to which they apply, not in the context of the national pool of test takers.</p>
<p>Test score interquartile range for most recently reported enrolled class at Yale: </p>
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<p>I said it upthread, but I’ll say it again. Students should also look at the Naviance scattergrams for their own high schools to evaluate their scores in context. My two children attended two different high schools, one public, one private. At both schools, each of the unhooked students admitted to Yale over the last several cycles had either a 35 or a 36 ACT composite.</p>
<p>How do I find the naviance scattergram for my school? I looked on that thread you posted near the beginning but I didn’t figure out how to work it out… I go to a public school in VA</p>
<p>disasterous – Are you sure your school uses Naviance? If it does and you are a senior, you’d surely know about it. If in doubt, ask your guidance counselor or college counselor. If your own school doesn’t use Naviance, other public schools in your area may. You can try Googling the names of other high schools and logging onto their websites. Once there, look for sections on college counseling. On at least a few sites you should find direct links to Naviance with guest access. Sometimes you need a guest password, which may be something relatively obvious, like the name of the school mascot. Sometimes the guest passwords are case-sensitive, so you may have to experiment a little.</p>