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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's how it works.

If someone else's child gets in because of an experience they've had, or an achievement, it's a "Hook".

If your child gets in, it's because they deserve it.

So, for example, on websites populated by mostly white affluent parents, getting in with high test scores (on tests that have been shown over and over again to be biased towards white affluent students) is not a "hook".  Similarly, if the school decides they want lacrosse players, or kids who demonstrated leadership by being "president" of a club of some sort, that's not a "hook".  Or if a kid happens to live in the kind of neighborhood where the schools offer a gazillion AP's, and thus has taken a gazillion AP's, that's not a "hook".  All those students absolutely deserve to be there.

On the other hand, if a school decides they value the experience of overcoming poverty, or racism (things that are much harder to do than playing lacrosse because Daddy signed you up for lessons when you were 6), those kids are only there because they have a "Hook".  [/quote]

You obviously don't understand what a hook is.[/quote]

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