"At our HS we regularly get kids in the top 10 percent with a 32 into Vandy. We’ve never since tracking gotten a kid into Duke unless top 3 percent and a 35+. Maybe our school is an anamoloy but this pattern seems to hold.
My neice with a 32 got into every school she applied to ranked 12-20. And not one in the 1-11 rank that she applied to. So it depends what you mean by " qualifications"."
Entirely too small of a sample to be meaningful. Hanna is right. There’s no meaningful difference at any kind of macro level.