Do they include an alumnus of the high school they’re visiting, as well as one of the college they’re representing? |
He is an AO. Stuy is his territory. Before Covid, he would fly to NYC and spend an evening at Stuy, no other schools were invited. He is now doing the same thing virtually. |
They do, if they find a willing person - it's great marketing. Stuy has a very strong alumni organization. I did not graduate from Stuy, but my son did a few years ago - they are still contacting me and my husband regularly for internship connections or presentations related to work. |
Which is insanely discriminatory. |
You don't get out much. |
So .. I think we can agree, you are wrong about this and the AO does treat Stuy just a little differently. |
The UChicago Director also comes to top privates in NYC. Nondorf came specifically to my kids' school and also said the same thing - he is the one who reads the essays and looks at their application. |
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I heard his “region” is Stuy and Horace Mann.
There’s a study on this somewhere. |
Diversity, equity & inclusion amirite. |
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I mean. IDK. I’m pro-Stuy. It’s not perfect and our k-8 system fails to propel a lot of black and brown kids to this level (it doesn’t help that the shsat isn’t aligned to curriculum), but Stuy is diverse, unless you clump all Asian kids as a monolith - from India to Korea.
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Aww, look at all the UMC white families suddenly crying about unfairness! Stuy is a special school with special kids, many of whom are poor or working class, have long commutes on subways to get to school, work their butts off, don't have nannies or tutors or a SAH parent, and you're going to complain that colleges are falling over themselves to recruit them? |
Nobody seems to be falling over themselves to recruit kids at the top of their class stuck in podunk rural high schools. The message is that the big city kids who go to well-resourced prep & magnet schools get all the love. |
They don't get the exclusive admissions presentation because none of the rural schools have the concentration of top-flight students to warrant one. But the admissions committees love a top student from podunkville, more so than some UMC kid from the DMV. |
Disagree. Many colleges are actively recruiting rural kids, even paying for them to fly in. But it doesn't make sense to fly all of stuy to chicago. Easier to fly themselves to a school that takes the very top kids out of a 1mm student school system. |
This. I know an admissions officer who had Territories in the Midwest and places like TN and Arkansas at various points. They made huge efforts to bring out exceptional kids with geographic diversity. If they couldn’t arrange for an alumni interview sometimes they’d bring the kid out to the campus for an interview there. |