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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so curious how this works out. 
My kid just started at a Big3 for 9th. 
[b]I was looking through an email that I was on and out of 30+ addresses, 10 are Ivy alumni addresses.  [/b]
This prompted me to google a bunch of the rest and out of 20, I easily hit 5 Harvard grads, 2 Duke, 3 Stanford, etc. There was one lonely Boston College grad. lol The rest were all.Ivy.

Now the reality is that last year this school sent maybe 15 kids to the Ivy League.  1/2 were sports recruits.  1/2 were minorities (some overlap but not entirely). 
There was maybe one kid each to HYPS. One to Duke (and of these 5 or so kids a few were athletes or URM).   
That's it.  Period.

When you have a parent body that overwhelmingly went to the Ivy League (or other tippy top schools) themselves and the spots for their kids are EXCEEDINGLY few (i.e. single digits) and everyone (50 people?) wants these spots, how does this work out?
Does it get ugly?
I am so curious and am sort of frightened to find out.  
(BTW I went to a SLAC).

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I have no idea about admissions, but this is insane to me. Do people who have been out of school for long enough to have high school aged children really still use their college alumni addresses? [/quote]

yes, apparently they do.  :roll:  I was surprised as well which is what led me down this rabbit trail.

You easily have 20 parents at this school with an AB from Harvard College.  (per my top notch google skills--and I stopped after 20---did not cover the entire class).  
ONE will get their child into Harvard from this school (the school generally gets in one kid per year).  
It's a 5% chance for the kids of these extremely successful legacies.  
Wow. 
I'm not looking forward to this excitement.  [/quote]

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