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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is the same everywhere in 2022. 
My daughter is at NCS and to my knowledge there is ONE Ivy admit this year who is not legacy/minority/recruited athlete.  A SINGLE admit without a hook.   I'm not sure STA has any to be honest. 
My good friends at kids at Wilson and School without Walls and they are the same this year.  Walls is sending quite a few kids to the Ivies (maybe 10?) and all but 1 or 2 are legacy or minorities. 
Same with Wilson.  The Ivy admits are almost all URM.  
It used to be (even 2 years ago) that you could reliably get into the Ivy league from DCPS (Walls/Wilson) as an unconnected non-minority (simply as a very smart, accomplished kid).  Not anymore. 
Now you need a hook.

I would agree with the previous posters that the kids getting in ARE worthy of the admits.  They'll do great in college.  So this is not meant to disparage them.  [/quote]

These extreme outcomes have been seriously dispiriting for unhooked students. Meritocracy in the traditional sense is basically dead. But, I suppose, we all knew that anyway.[/quote]

Meritocracy? I want you to tell me how you think a student gets into Sidwell Friends School in the first place.[/quote]

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