That’s been around a while - I had a similar thing. Learned a lot from it. Public schools have more heuristics. I could draw a box around who’s gonna get in vs

That’s been around a while - I had a similar thing. Learned a lot from it. Public schools have more heuristics. I could draw a box around who’s gonna get in vs not - everything but SAT/GPA seemed irrelevant. This included top state schools (eg UVA & Michigan). Top private schools had a similar box - but it was much more “possible to admit” than “definitely in”. You’d draw a similar box as for state schools, and it was random within that box. There were 1-2 individual outliers per school. Idk why (data excluded athletes, allegedly), but was interesting - there a back door to Michigan, even with a 3.0, if you can find it.