Looking at RLS HS, it must be more than grades and test scores

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<p><a href=“http://www.rlstevenson.org/ftpimages/28/misc/misc_23015.pdf[/url]”>http://www.rlstevenson.org/ftpimages/28/misc/misc_23015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is a small private school in CA. I wouldn’t have predicted the success of some of the students. Amherst, Claremont, USC, and Miami, I wonder if these kids were athletes?</p>

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<p>A boarding school at Pebble Beach on the Monterrey Peninsula? I don’t imagine there are any development admits in that crowd, huh?</p>

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<p>Wow - that’s an interesting document! I hope others will take a look. What I found most surprising was that the GPA, SATs, and all college acceptances for individual students were listed in descending class rank order. No names given, but this isn’t exactly “anonymous” - if you know that Susie is the only kid in the class going to Yale, you also know that she was ranked 2nd, had a 4.18 GPA, scored 1480 on the SAT, and was accepted at UCBerkeley,UCLA, UCSD, Cornell, Georgetown, and Rochester. This is a LOT of info to have available to the curious, imho.</p>

<p>I wondered which might have been development admits or athletes. I couldn’t find any glaring examples, but thought about the 3rd quintile, 3.5 GPA (I presume weighted, since the highest GPA was a 4.2), 1300 SAT student in at Amherst, Wesleyan, U-Chicago, and Bucknell. There are some other interesting admits: West Point with a 3.4 GPA (4th quintile) and 1240 SAT, Vanderbilt at the bottom of the first quintile (3.85), 1160 SAT.</p>

<p>Only about 15 kids out of 130 had GPAs below 3.0 - that’s interesting, too.</p>

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<p>One odd one is the student who is going to Westmont College who also applied to Pitzer and UCSC. I don’t think those applicant pools overlap much.</p>

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<p>RLS has a serious lacrosse program (something still not that common on the West Coast), which accounts for some of the success in NE and mid-Atlantic college admissions, I suspect. </p>

<p>They also have a serious golf program (how’d you like to have Pebble Beach as your HOME COURSE in HS?!?).</p>