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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Working against you will be the preference of these schools for applicants of the schools they traditionally admit students from.[/b]

The relationship between Gonzaga and for example, Blessed Sacrament, is very long-standing and mutually beneficial. And Gonzaga gets both objective and subjective information about candidates they feel they can trust.

Gonzaga is the more academically-competitive and sought after of the two schools. So it will be harder to be accepted.

And at both schools --- because they are Catholic schools --- there is a preference for Catholic applicants that would affect both admission and financial aid decisions.[/quote]

Completely agree on this.  Without getting too specific, I know of a student last year who was in an Arlington Diocese parochial, applying to a Arlington Diocese HS.  Acceptance should have been automatic, but the kid was a terror at his parochial - fighting, pulling fire alarms, that kind of thing.  He was not accepted at the HS.  Parochial administrators value being able to place 'their' kids in Catholic HS's, and wont send a problem kid along with a good recommendation if it hurts their parochial's overall standing with the HS admissions staff.  [/quote]

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