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Seems schools like Sidwell wants it both ways. They want to feed kids into competitive programs but limited by recruiting kids not necessarily geared or prepared for those programs. Recruiting kids are from certain privileged backgrounds definitely requires sacrificing kids who are better prepared academically...just my 2cents.[/quote]

Why do you assume "recruited kids" are of lesser academic ability? Not my experience at all.[/quote]

Because when you consider constraints of legacy, donors, influential parents, siblings, sports the admission seizes to be a meritorcracy, it will have to let less prepared kids slip in and possibly more than the admission committe would if it were a meritocracy.[/quote]

I don't consider most on your list to be recruited. but YMMV.[/quote]

Does admitted work better? I once heard people argue on semantics when they don’t have a point to make.[/quote]

Admitted is not the same as recruited. Please refer to a dictionary before castigating others for your poor word choice.[/quote]

Well if you felt castigated then it was for your inability to comprehend and argue on semantics rather than substance.
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