So your theory is that BSs reject top scoring kids so that the kids who can’t get all A’s won’t feel badly about themselves?
I really don’t think this is anywhere close to true. Those kids get rejected because of things like this:
Legacy with an 85% ssat
Athlete, 2 or 3 varsity sports, 90% ssat
Musician, 2 instruments, first gen college
Those are the kids taking the spots from the 99% kids. And those kids often do very very well at BS. A school only has so many spots for kids for whom academics is a hook (because imo it is almost never a hook because kids often think they’re a lot smarter than they are after they score a 99%).
There are colleges that admit just on grades and test scores aren’t there? BS don’t want their cohorts to be so narrowly chosen.