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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But you're only a sibling/legacy/whatever at one school.  DH and I went to the same private elementary here, and were very confident dd would be accepted, and she was.  But that had no impact on our standing at the other 5 schools to which we applied, so it would be highly misleading to look like DD was a legacy candidate elsewhere.[/quote]
Yes, that's true, but I probably did not describe clearly how I was envisioning the survey working.  I would treat each application as a separate opportunity to complete the survey.  So let's pretend the survey covers both Beauvoir and Sidwell.  If you applied to Beauvoir but not Sidwell, you'd complete the survey once, and only respond with what characteristics were applicable to Beauvoir, and how your application fared.  If you applied to both Beauvoir and Sidwell, you'd complete the survey twice, because you'd have one set of application data and results for each school.

On one hand, this may seem more cumbersome for you if you applied to multiple schools, since you will be forced to answer the same survey twice (once for each school).  But on the other hand, if we don't do it that way, then I will need to create a separate survey for each individual school, and you would need to find and answer a different survey for each school at issue.  So even more cumbersome.

I seriously doubt Beauvoir and Sidwell treat applicants much differently on these characteristics, so combining them would not really degrade the results.  And combining the results will give many more responses in aggregate, which may improve the results by minimizing the impact of outliers.[/quote]

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