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RockyPA
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:51:29 +0000

MWolf:

Are you in-state for GTech?

I don’t know about Cornell and Vanderbilt, since the acceptance rates keep falling. However, looking at @Eeyore123’s stats, and since your DD is a legacy, it could easily also be a match or low match.

The Vanderbilt seems odd, but data is data, and even if it’s a relatively small data set (say a total of 40-60 applicants in the past three years), it would indicate that high-stats kids from your DD’s HS are being accepted at a higher rate than expected, even if all the applicants were applying ED.

I wouldn’t think of them as matches in your expectations, but if I were you, i would feel comfortable with adding them to a list that already had three or four reaches without considering the list to be “reach heavy”. Personally, if it were me, I would put together a list with reaches and matches that were clearer, and then add those on as “extras”. But that’s me thinking what I would have done, but since I never had to make those decisions, you can take my advice with a couple of handfuls of salt.

No, we are not in-state for GT. Her GC thinks GT is a match though… based on her GPA and SAT, there actually has not been anyone from her HS that has even applied with stats as high as hers. The highest stats kids apply elsewhere. The acceptances are mostly with weighted GPAs 4.4-4.6 and SATS with SATs 1420-1550. She has a 4.7 and a 1570. Obviously stats are only part of the picture, but my dd has pretty strong ECs as well (both STEM and non-STEM).