top 10% of class

Redroses
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:21:34 +0000

Schools that send 30% to top colleges are usually not sending the top 30%. except in the case of very top magnets, such high schools are elite privates, filled with legacies and development candidates, and often top URMs and athletes.

Even at these schools, an unhooked candidate would typically be near the very top to get into HYPS, and top 10% to get into the other ivies and peers. But since these schools typically don’t rank and almost every student would be successful at a top college, colleges can dig deeper if a candidate holds interest.