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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Found a good reddit thread on a related topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1fto1x7/not_disclosing_parents_colleges/

"OP has a good "strategic" question - what information could be reasonably omitted to improve chances of admission. This happens lots of times for strong applicants. They might have been in 13 activities, so 3 of them aren't going to make the cut for the CommonApp list. They might have 7 awards, so a couple get dropped. Maybe their grandparents helped them with SAT prep - that isn't going to make it anywhere on the application. Extending this line of thought to the specific college attended by a parent is very natural."

"Usually AOs looking for an extra degree of excellence for such an applicant. If the kid has parents from Podunk U, they view them as the "underdog" and root for them"

"I agree. I would assume children of Stanford grads come from a privileged background, with a lot of resources for ECs and SAT-prep. I might discount high SAT score a bit."

"OP - I had the exact same thought for my kid who applies next year. Having parents with HYPSM degrees will be viewed as an advantage in the eyes of AOs, setting expectations even higher. And there is that whole weirdness about yield protection at non-legacy schools. College admissions is a game so here we are playing it.

I mean, the same folks in this thread who are chastising you, well they don't list their parents' info on their current resumes when applying to jobs. Exception: those looking for nepotism hires. And they certainly didn't go out of their way to list every advantage they may have encountered on their journey (ever see anyone list "received 100 hours of SAT prep tutoring" or "parents drove me to school every day until they bought me a car the day I turned 16 so I wouldn't have to lose time on a bus ride" on a college app? Is that dishonest for not listing those?).

Plus you've got a few folks in this thread riding on laurels of in-state admission to public colleges. With the exception of STEM majors at Cal, UCLA & UT Austin, in-state admission to publics is very different than admission to elite privates, being far more formulaic on GPA/SAT (OOS to those publics mostly just upping the threshold on GPA/SAT)

For the record, colleges in California will not be allowed to even ask for parents' colleges starting next fall. Doesn't mean you couldn't include it in an essay or Extra Info section, but they can't ask."[/quote]

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Another reason to look at CA in this whole college applying process. Doubt it will happen. Good luck to all in uncertain times.[/quote]

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