^^ Well. that would have been me, placated. So, my apologies. In reading for the last couple of years SevenDad’s incredibly helpful posts – truly, the application experience that should be stickied permanently on this site as it answers almost every question and massages every conundrum – I had thought that I had read that SevenDaughter (or a sibling) had been accepted at Exeter and had nonetheless chosen SAS – the point being that being happy and charged up with a school will influence performance and matters more than reputation