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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

[b]SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private.  This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their 
3.4's for working their a$$es off.  🙁

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Can you provide evidence for that?  [/quote]

They're probably the best in the DC for getting unhooked (white/Asian, non-legacy, non athletic recruit) kids into Ivies. This year I don't know exactly but it's probably as many as 10 kids. 
Some are on their Instagram, others I just know about.  In contrast, the Big 3s' are maybe getting in 2 of these kids per class this year.  I have a Big3 kid who attended DCPS until middle school
so we know Walls kids very well as many of my kid's friends attend Walls.  [/quote]

Are you saying Walls is the best public school doing this?

Based on Instagram posts alone, Sidwell is sending 11 students to Ivies this year (and Ivy equivalents—MIT and U of C).  Sidwell also has 25 fewer students per grade than Walls.[/quote]

Did you read my post?  Walls is getting [b]UNHOOKED[/b] kids into the Ivies.  white/Asian/non-legacy/non athletes. 
My understanding is that pretty much all the Sidwell kids are hooked.  You can tell by their Instagram and by some quick googling.
For example, Princeton at Sidwell: one URM, two legacies.  One legacy is also a VIP's kid, I believe the other has a parent who has been active at Princeton post graduation.

Anyway, this is the trend with most if not all Ivy admits from Big3 schools this year. 
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You do realize that legacy status alone won’t get you into any Ivy, right?  A closer look? Perhaps, but that’s it.  I know top students (grades and test scores) who are double Ivy legacies but they were not admitted to their parents’ alma mater.[/quote]

sure, it doesn't get you in but it gets you about a 30% chance vs 3% for the general population.  [/quote]

Citation for the 30% please?  The citation should only include legacies who are NOT also URM, recruited athletes, and the children of big donors.  [/quote]

In fact, a recent Harvard Crimson survey of the 2021 class found that an astounding 29 percent of students — nearly a third — had a relation (parent, grandparent, sibling, aunt, uncle etc.) who attended Harvard. This is almost double the proportion in the survey (16.3 percent) who said their parents lack a four-year college degree. NBC News and the Crimson
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The 29% that you cite (without a link) does not apply here.  Harvard only considers children of Harvard College (not University) to be legacies for purposes of admission.  You are NOT a legacy if your aunt/uncle/grandparents/siblings graduated from Harvard College. You are also not considered to be a legacy applicant if your parents graduated from HBS/HLS/or another Harvard University graduate program.

“Are my chances of admission enhanced if a relative has attended Harvard?

The application process is the same for all candidates. Among a group of similarly distinguished applicants, the children of Harvard College alumni/ae may receive an additional look.”

https://college.harvard.edu/resources/faq[/quote]

When it comes to kicking the unfair “extra look” colleges give to legacy applicants, Harvard is falling behind, and its peers are taking the lead. Just last Wednesday, Amherst College announced that it will be doing away with legacy admissions — joining the ranks of schools such as Caltech and MIT, who already do not consider legacy status.

It doesn’t take much to recognize that the Harvard admissions process is grossly competitive — after all, the acceptance rate for the Class of 2025 was a staggering low of 3.43 percent. The children of alumni have excelled in this hypercompetitive environment. Between 2014 and 2019, the acceptance rate for legacies, 33 percent, dwarfed Harvard’s overall acceptance rate of only 6 percent.
Harvard Crimson 10/28/2021[/quote]

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