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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a Sidwell senior going to an Ivy.  My DC is definitely unhooked.  Zero legacy, not a recruited athlete and not an URM.  Certainly not a VIP.   I would agree that many Sidwell seniors headed to Ivies are hooked, but a handful are unambiguously unhooked.  The nuance is that many of the hooked kids are in fact very strong students.  The tension, however, is that the slight edge given to those with hooks probably did “steal” or at least lower the probability of a spot going to a very strong unhooked kid applying at the same Ivy at the same time, given two similarly strong applicants, one hooked and one not.  Not a value statement about the “relative worthiness” of one hooked vs. an unhooked one.  I can understand both points of view — why an unhooked kid might feel incredibly frustrated by disappointing outcomes and why a hooked kid might feel unjustifiably maligned given significant accomplishments.  My takeaway as a parent of an unhooked kid who ultimately had several very good admits to Ivies is you need to fully accept and embrace the fact that that ED/SCEA/EA is NOT about your kid.  Period.  RD is for your kid who is unhooked and a very strong applicant.  In hindsight, I wish I had understood this going into the process.  [/quote]

Not a Sidwell parent, my kid is a senior in MCPS with similar outcome,  and I completely agree about early admissions.  Only did will with umd in early. The kids who got in early seemed to be largely lefacy. It was RD where they were looking for non legacy kids. While mine is unhooked by these standards,  she did have a fair amount of awards, one national,  which is another way to stand out.

I will say that at admitted students day, there really weren't many urms that we've seen. So legacy and athletics seem to be the stronger hooks.[/quote]

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