is boarding school HS a hook for college?
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Anonymous
No one is making a decision based on this thread. This is not misinformation - it’s my information. Maybe not relevant or applicable to you? This has been my experience bc we have a high HHI, and wealth markers /signals that I wanted to make sure wouldn’t be disadvantageous in the process. I’ve talked with 4 former AOs at T20s and 3 other private counselors. I’m not in the DMV btw. Do your own diligence always. Just sharing what I’ve learned - as it applies to my kid’s app and our situation. Our strategy worked but again who really ever knows why. Going through this process again now and I’m realizing how clueless I was the first time around. |
Anonymous
What type of preferences? |
Anonymous
Again you are saying "look at these numbers" without any direct evidence or even a logic chain. At best this is a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy. There is no evidence need blind schools make admissions decisions based on economics. |
Anonymous
No surprise. |
Anonymous
No, it is MISinformation, because it is just not true, and you should stop posting that claim until you have evidence. If no one makes decisions based on this thread anyway, why would you even bother to post the misinformation?
But you haven't "learned" anything. You've been told something, and based on your representation of it here, it is false.
If you did not think that need blind schools were not need blind before, you were better informed your first time. |
Anonymous
Then why are they paying tens of millions to avoid discovery in the 568 case? |
Anonymous
| lol so boarding school IS a hook? |
Anonymous
No idea. More conjecture. Worse, actually. |
Anonymous
| PEA, Andover, St Grottlesex, and others at that tier do place more students per year into Ivys and T20s, but it is very unclear to me how much it is due to the school and how much it is due to parents who are alums from the college the student is applying to. |
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Unrelatedly, has anyone heard that AOs look at the colleges where the parents went?
Is that ever relevant at all? |
Anonymous
Yes. This whole thread is weird. |
Anonymous
But more often than not these days, these kids are going to schools where the parents did not go. Still very good schools but maybe not Ivy (or at least not Yale). How do you explain that? Does anyone have links to all of these boarding school Instagram sites? |
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My third child is about to apply to a few boarding schools. He really wants an involved peer community and rich social life. Less time on phones/video games He also wants less time commuting, as he thrives academically and athletically after good sleep. Our house has become too quiet now that the older ones are at college and beyond. There are a few other personal reasons as well.
We have explained in clear terms that the larger the school, the more difficult his college path will be. He will be competing against his school peers, many of whom will be donor class or recruited athletes. He might be recruit material. Too soon to know, and we are very aware of the slim odds. Lots of support and motivation from us, but no sugarcoating. He has two small (sub 400) schools on his list. Two medium (400-800) and one large (800+). All have rich programming for his interests. He understands that he would probably fare best, statistically, from his current day school. He has seen two siblings navigate the process. Yet, he has made plain that he is aware of the drawbacks of applying to college from a competitive bs, and wants to attend nonetheless for the reasons listed above. He has shown maturity in his assessment and decision making. We want him to get the best education possible in high school and beyond. We don’t believe bs will be hook. But we do think it will be the start of a challenging and rewarding young adulthood. We have agreed he can apply and attend, if the financial aid piece (partial need) makes sense. I will note that his first choice is a medium school. Close second is a small one. I might send a tiny prayer to the universe that he is accepted at both but offered better aid at the smaller school. That would be a fine reason to choose the school that also improves his odds for college. It’s a factor, just not the primary one. |
Anonymous
Donor and athletics. Boarding schools recruit in the same way colleges do. You also have athletes doing 13th grade in boarding school to become better recruits |
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I heard it helped get kids off of waitlists this year. For example, Georgetown calls Andover and says, “who will commit today and doesn’t need to see a financial aid package?” And Andover tells them.
There was a lot of waitlist movement this year. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen next year, though. |