I understand this, all I’m asking is why is there a discrepancy in the data. I asked 1 guidance counselor who couldn’t explain the discrepancy, the 2nd guidance counselor said 1 set of data came from the past 5 years while the 2nd set of data was from last year which I don’t think is correct because I can see the 2nd set of data coming from multiple years.
We are trying to use this tool to get “an idea” for selecting her reaches in the RD round. If there were 7 students who got accepted within the narrow .05 GPA range for the past 5 years, this gives her some hope and it would be reasonable for her to apply to this school as a reach. On the other hand, we see some Ivy league schools that had 0 acceptances within this GPA range, so it’s reasonable to eliminate that school as a reach. Also, the data says there were over 100 total students who got accepted to this school the past 5 years. I could be wrong but this seems too many, even for a high performing public school.
She applied to 3 or 4 safeties in the EA round and already got accepted to 1 that she really likes, so anything better would be gravy.