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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you that crazy poster who was anti-ivy schools, especially Harvard, on the Jeopardy thread a few weeks back?  [/quote]

No, I have nothing against ivies.

This may be anecdotal evidence, but at DS's school everyone who scored near 2400 with little preparation got into ivies and top schools. It's all the not-so-smart kids whose parents shelled out hundreds of dollars for test prep classes and managed to boost their scores who didn't.

Most of the posters on College Confidential's major problem is that they assume college admissions officers are naive idiots who automatically assume higher test scores = smarter kids. [/quote]

My question is how do admissions officers know who has received SAT tutoring and who hasn't?  My DC made excellent scores on SATs with no tutoring other than the practice workbook.  Do they just assume the higher-scoring kids had tutors?  If so, that seems extremely unfair to those who were never tutored.[/quote]

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