<p>I would guess your school has a lot of recruited athletes, solid URMs or legacies. If you’re not in one of those groups I’d put zero stock in it.</p>
<p>recruited athletes haha (nope)
URMs (the highest rank a URM has had in my school in the last 6 years [the span of the data] was top 18%]]
Legacies [none of them were legacies]</p>
<p>Without recruited athletes, it frankly boggles my mind that those kids got into Yale. ALL of the kids I know who were rejected had higher stats across the board, plus maximum rigor, good ECs, at least state level awards, etc.</p>
<p>Is yours a magnet school of some kind? Were they all superb singers or professional theater performers or something?</p>
<p>CC’s, here, always post GPAs, but really class rank is far more revealing (and important to Admission committees). So a key part of the story is where the 3.2-3.6 puts you in the class.</p>
<p>What is this like puliing teeth. I am from NJ - I will know the school you are talking about - ok - out with it. Unless of course you are not telling the truth about the 44 apps getting accepted.</p>