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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's silly.  You don't get to read the personal essays or the teacher recs either.  [/quote]

That's not quite the same. I think the claim that a lot of people make on these boards is that all things being equal, most admits to top schools from area privates fall into some hooked category. So I can look at SCOIR (in the case of NCS) and see an encouraging number of green dots for a particular school or schools. But if 4 out of 5 of the green dots were legacies and my DD is not, and 4/5 of the red dots are not legacies, then that would be helpful to know, just to be realistic. My DD can make her own assessment of the likelihood that she will write a good essay or get good recommendations. But if the success that NCS or another top private has at certain colleges is heavily weighted towards legacies or some other group, then that would be a helpful data point. That's all. And besides, someone above made the point that in Naviance you can identify hooked status. I have no experience with Naviance, so could not say whether it is true. So I was drawing that distinction as well. [/quote]

I take the point but people here vastly overestimate the effect of legacy status and  legacy status may not impact admission in any event (i.e., the school doesn't say that is the reason for admission, except in very limited circumstances).  Athletics might be more useful, but [b]such identifying information is a bit over the top, particularly at smaller schools[/b].  And the broader point - that it could just be a good essay or recommendation that is the difference, still matters.   [/quote]

students should have no privacy at all. my kid needs to get into college, so i need to know every detail about every student that came before them (and how rich their parents are and where they went to school).[/quote]

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