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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with 9:30 that outplacement directors will often relay a family's preferences to the ADs, as part of their effort to sway the school into accepting the child.  E.g.: "Little Mary's family absolutely loves GDS, and I'm sure they'd come to GDS if admitted."

I would hope that no outplacement director would tank a family's chances by explicitly telling an AD that the family is not really interested.  E.g.: "Let me be frank. Beauvoir is the family's third-place choice for Little Mary, so don't waste a spot on her."  But I cannot know for sure what some outplacement directors might do.

Although I know ADs at different schools will confer with each other on various issues, I doubt they carefully compare notes on each candidate, to coordinate their admissions decisions.  That would be inconsistent with how many people get multiple admissions from these schools.  It might even be a criminal antitrust violation.

Of course, in a one-off case, if an AD gets conflicting info on a particular family or suspects a family is playing two schools against each another, it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that the ADs from those schools would compare notes.  [/quote]

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