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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Include your polo events and write an essay about how you lovingly care for your polo horses yourself, grooms be damned? Lacrosse will look like you're positively slumming it by comparison :-)

DD sails with her father and rides on horseback. Applications that look full pay are not looked down upon these days, OP.

Your kid is not getting a poverty boost if he lives in this area and your family is more than lower working class. He's white so he's not getting a ethnicity boost either. Thus: dwelling on the low caliber of his lacrosse team is unhelpful. It will just mean your kid is bad at his chosen sport - don't do that to him, please.

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Huh?  It sounds like your kids have lots of resources to be engaged in elite activities.  And if that is part of who they are, then reflecting it in their application is reflecting reality.

If you're a sailor or a polo player or a lax player that does not come from a high level of resources,  you might want to take care that your application reflects your reality.  Why have the admissions Department misunderstand the reality of an applicant?[/quote]

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