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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NCS had one girl last year who got into an Ivy without being a recruited athlete, URM or legacy (VIP or big donor legacy). 
The trend seems to be continuing this year at NCS, GDS, Sidwell through ED at least.   No kids admitted ED who are no hooked.

Time will tell if anyone unhooked gets in through regular decision.

The admissions landscape has REALLY, REALLY changed in recent (2 or so) years.  
The high schools are trying to keep this under wraps but it is a a huge change.

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You are very right about the private schools trying to keep this quiet.

For instance, GDS and Sidwell stopped reporting in any publication admissions by graduating class. Now they only show matriculations over the last 5 or 6 years of graduating classes.  That’s a big new change.

At GDS, they have started actively recruiting top middle school athletes for 9th grade incoming class. This seems very new for them. Perhaps Sidwell and NCS have long recruited. GDS has not.

Finally, taking the incentives to their extreme, this will mean 9th grade admissions will be even more focused on VIP parents, URM and top athletes.  [/quote]

+1. GDS is being smart[/quote]

GDS still reports where graduating students are headed to college in their school magazine in the Fall. The magazine is available on the website and gets mailed to every family. That has always been the case, and it has not changed. The matriculations data over five years is not new and always been puplicly available in the school profile. College admissions has gotten harder for everyone and its frustration, but we have been a GDS family for over ten years and the information they report has not changed in a material way. [/quote]

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