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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an STA parents an I spent way too much time on Instagram and I'm surprised by the college admissions.  I probably saw 60-70% of the class and there are just a very small handful of Ivys (6?) and of course all but 2 (or even more) are athletic recruits or legacy or both. 
Which is fine.  But the rest isn't good either. 
There are a handful of Chicagos and a couple of other top 30 schools and then bam--the bottom falls out.  Lots of kids going to school ranked 50-100. (Then there are a bunch of kids that don't have anything posted on Instagram yet). 
What happened? I can't find ANY admits to places like Michigan, UCLA, Williams, Rice, Penn, Georgetown, Stanford, Hopkins, Wash U, Emory, Bowdoin, Wash and Lee and on and on.   Most of the half-decent admits (Pomona, Colgate) are athletic recruits. It really appears that almost all the non-athletes are going to schools ranked 50+.
GDS and Sidwell seem to be having very good years.  NCS is doing ok (not as good as GDS and Sidwell from what I can tell).  
Is this STA class just not strong academically?  Am I missing something? 
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There is a lot of focus on sports at STA now. There’s no time to compete against kids who don’t have as many time constraints across the country and even locally from other schools. GPAs really matter and so do SAT scores in college admissions and there’s just so much time in the day. Getting home at 7 -7:30 every night from a long day of school and sports doesn’t leave a lot of gas left to do a good job on your studies and papers.[/quote]

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