Please rejoin the conversation at this new thread, split from here. Closing this one as the topic has veered too far off course from the original post.
If OP is interested in matriculation data from a comparable school in California, Harvard Westlake puts out detailed admissions information for unhooked kids. Comparing last year’s data to the year before tells the story. There’s a huge increase in the number of applications, and the results are slightly lower. Hard to say what exactly is going on behind the admits or rejections, there is so much noise in the data and a relatively small dataset. But it is consistent with what @417WHB and @westchesterdad22 describe above as the trend.
Scroll to the end of each handbook for a chart of admissions at each college, by unweighted gpa:
Most recent : https://students.hw.com/Portals/44/completehandbook2023.pdf
Year before: https://students.hw.com/Portals/44/2022Handbook.pdf
And for good measure, H-W’s actual matriculation for last year (includes legacies, recruited athletes, and where people go, not just where they got in like with the gpa charts): Matriculation
Eta: imo, University o…
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