Precisely. You hook up the GS MD’s son with some oxy and you’ll be setup with a sweet internship at Apollo in no time |
Only if they left the keys to the brand new Porsche. Would they mind? |
Take it out for a spin. Make sure to reverse the odometer afterward. |
Um. Well. Of course not. |
I was a non-minority non-athletic non-legacy faculty kid at a middling Midwestern private school and would have absolutely been in this category at HM; at my school I was the smart kid and took advantage of some neat resume-bolstering opportunities and ended up getting into both of the Ivies I applied to. I can't necessarily promise that would happen at a lower-ranked school in NYC because geographic competition is a concern too, and even at Fieldston you're competing with the billionaire / celebrity kids who weren't smart enough to get into Riverdale, but if we stipulate that private school can make a difference in the options for a given kid, then unless your kid is a rock star who was going to get in everywhere anyway, a lower-ranked school will probably do at least as good a job of packaging them as HM/Trinity/Dalton/Brearley would. |
You weren’t an average Joe. You were a faculty brat. They are given priority in admissions at these schools to keep their parents (the college office’s co-workers) happy. |