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Generalizing based on a sample of 11, on CC no less? CC people tend to be overachievers (I’m not stereotyping here but that’s the norm.) What we should see is the percentage acceptance for the valedictorians in the results thread, and % acceptance for non valedictorians/top 1-2% of class. Also, in a similar college (MIT, really selective), valedictorian admit rate was 25% only (though that made half the incoming class valedictorians.)</p>
<p>Rank is always more important than SAT. That doesn’t mean the SAT can’t break the application, though. A 2150 valedictorian is more likely to be admitted than a 2400 top 10%-er (unfortunately for me.)</p>