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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure I'm buying the above, not here in the Information Age.  These days, a really determined, super hard-working, bright kid from a middle-class family can learn a great deal from the Internet, on-line libraries, and enrichment camps during school breaks.  I've done a lot of volunteer interviewing for my Ivy in the DC area in the last 20 years, interviewed many applicants from DC's most expensive private schools, WIS, Sidwell, Maret, NCS, St. Albans, GDS etc. Few of these applicants blew me away, or got stellar write-ups from me, but some of the applicants I've interviewed from Walls, BASIS, Wilson/JR and Latin did. When a kid is spoon fed excellent academics at a tony private from a young age, chances are good that said applicant is only so thoughtful, interesting and resourceful by senior year in HS. Hint: colleges admitting in the single digits in this country are seeking the intellectually entrepreneurial.[/quote]

What about a kid who was in DCPS until 9th? Will you also write them off on principal? [/quote]

I don't write private school kids off.  I've recommended a number strongly over the years. But many come off as gratingly arrogant and entitled despite not being terribly impressive. I don't want most of them at my Ivy.[/quote]

NP. Wow. You have serious, serious issues. I went to Stanford and I would never, ever talk about kids this way. You are doing your Ivy a disservice. [/quote].

NP. Bully for you. You sound like a sanctimonious pain. At least the Ivy interviewer is being honest about refusing to recommend applicants s/he doesn’t want to be a admitted reasons that sound reasonable to me. Why don’t you exercise your prerogative to interview for Stanford and leave things at that?  It’s up to the Ivy to evaluate the quality of the input alum interviewers provide, not judgmental outsiders. [/quote]

Wrong.  Hidden biases and prejudices are a real problem.

If you are so oblivious to that, you should NOT be interviewing.  Please review the rules and guidelines for interviews, and go away.

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Why don't you guys agree to disagree. Better yet, why don't you both go away.[/quote]

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