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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it matters. The kids at our public high school that are entering HYP are not national merit semifinalists and we had the largest class of national semifinalists this year in our state. [/quote] From our school, people who went to HYP were legacy, athletes, underrepresented minorities, not academic superstars.[/quote] Our DCs attended a top private in NYC - the folks going to the HYPSM were nearly all academic superstars. Of these, some were legacy, some were connected to luminaries. Only two, who were legacy of board of trustees' members across generations, were just fine. Once beyond those five schools, then most were still academic superstars, but there were some who got in because of connections, potential for 7-8 digit contributions, or schools simply wanting the flex of "X's kid goes here" or "X's and Y's kid goes here." (And to be fair, in that last category, some were stellar students.)[/quote]
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