Best private schools in NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:these places horse trade. You can apply, but the school gives the thumbs up to only a couple. I am glad you have that much faith in Harvard’s integrity, but part of what you are paying for at these schools is the head of school who can call the admissions office at Harvard.

Literally a trinity/harvard grad. you don’t know what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard is the school that docked asian students on “personality points.” there are all sorts of games they play. I don’t know anything about Trinity, but it’s so known at Brearley I once heard my friend’s daughter openly discussing a kid “who has a double Harvard legacy” with another friend in second grade. She was horrified but she says it’s really common with the kids.

Oh, well who could argue against your friend’s daughter that you overheard once

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The truth is somewhere in the middle, there are optimistic parents who feel their child has a possibility of being admitted (far reach) and the schools don’t want to dedicate resources to helping students apply if they don’t think they have a realistic chance of being admitted.

The gossipy aspect is a matter of bruised ego and saving face.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is somewhere in the middle, there are optimistic parents who feel their child has a possibility of being admitted (far reach) and the schools don’t want to dedicate resources to helping students apply if they don’t think they have a realistic chance of being admitted.

The gossipy aspect is a matter of bruised ego and saving face.

well, yeah. Like literally anywhere else. I don’t understand why this seems complicated. It’s not some weird conspiracy.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

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Anonymous wrote:these places horse trade. You can apply, but the school gives the thumbs up to only a couple. I am glad you have that much faith in Harvard’s integrity, but part of what you are paying for at these schools is the head of school who can call the admissions office at Harvard.

Literally a trinity/harvard grad. you don’t know what you’re talking about.

They don’t know what they’re talking about. Harvard doesn’t care what the Head of School says 99% of the time. They do care if the student is an academic all star, comes from a donor family, or can play water polo there. And nothing the admissions office can do short of saying they wouldn’t matriculate at Harvard would stop their acceptance.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

Direct us to the policy, please. I’ve found nothing indicating a limit on the number of colleges you can apply to.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

Can’t you just apply early decision? Or say in your cover letter “Note: my school Hufflepuff Academy has indicated that they do not approve of my applying to your institution, rest assured that whatever they may have told you I actually love Penn and am desperate to go there?” It’s usually the same admissions officer reading all of the files from a particular school for several years, presumably they’d eventually catch on if a school kept insisting that certain students didn’t want to go there.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

So what you’re saying is that st paul’s, without telling parents, only supports five applications for each student. They do this without consent from anyone, without publicly disclosing it, limiting the ability of their own students to choose where they matriculate, possibly hurting their own stats, and everyone, both school admin, students, and parents, are ok with this?

Sounds reasonable.

I personally think that limiting the number of colleges people can apply to should happen, but I don’t believe this happens at sps, at least not as you’ve described.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new admissions department asked people to do this (I was told this by a parent who is there). They should have broken it up over time so it’s less obvious.

Yeah, that's just a terrible idea all around - I don't know why Brearley of all places would feel the need to worry about Niche reviews, they could just put a big banner on their front page with the % of their graduating class that's attending Harvard.

They don’t. I have kids there and have never heard this. Just asked some friends of mine and they hadn’t either. Rather amusing what appears on anonymous message boards.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

Direct us to the policy, please. I’ve found nothing indicating a limit on the number of colleges you can apply to.

They’d never write out the policy publicly, for reasons you can probably surmise.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

Can’t you just apply early decision? Or say in your cover letter “Note: my school Hufflepuff Academy has indicated that they do not approve of my applying to your institution, rest assured that whatever they may have told you I actually love Penn and am desperate to go there?” It’s usually the same admissions officer reading all of the files from a particular school for several years, presumably they’d eventually catch on if a school kept insisting that certain students didn’t want to go there.

You can apply anywhere you want ED. If you don’t get in, you apply to four RD.

You are underestimating the reliability of TT college counselors. Penn is a stand in for that sixth school they were told not to apply to. The counselors know their true number 1, 2, 3 etc. When an admissions officer gets a call that a student is a bad applicant, they have 9 other applicants who can take the spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools.

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.

SPS, at least until 2015. You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October). Others do this, they would never say it on their website. As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript. Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.

So what you’re saying is that st paul’s, without telling parents, only supports five applications for each student. They do this without consent from anyone, without publicly disclosing it, limiting the ability of their own students to choose where they matriculate, possibly hurting their own stats, and everyone, both school admin, students, and parents, are ok with this?

Sounds reasonable.

I personally think that limiting the number of colleges people can apply to should happen, but I don’t believe this happens at sps, at least not as you’ve described.

The parents and students and faculty know this rule. They don’t broadcast it to the public or on admitted students day. It isn’t a secret on campus.