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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least one kid applying to Brown was top 5 percent of the class and deferred.  Friends were very surprised. [/quote]

Agree.  At least one of my DC's good friends took most challenge courses (both math and science) and get almost all As got deferred.[/quote]

What race were all these deferred kids?[/quote]

most are white and Asians.  Almost no URM applied for Brown[/quote]

But the URM gets the blame, all the time, because there could be no other reason why DC didn't get admitted. A seat had to have been stolen by an under qualified URM, right?

Try this on for fact: There are a lot -- no, A LOT of talented and high performing students out there.  There are many in this area.  Do not knock the talent and achievement of the magnet schools in this area.  Also, there are great students all over, maybe not as concentrated in one spot as at Sidwell.  But they do get in to top schools as well. 
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Unfortunately kids all know who took the most challenge courses and who took the easy pass.   There are published lists for NMSF and presidential scholar candidates.  The facts are just there.[/quote]

I think that some parents in this area could use some added perspective.  I really think they lack perspective and understanding about college admissions and who gets in and why.  I just find the incessant threads on the disappointment of Sidwell parents to be a tad bit overbearing when it's like the same broken record.  Mine did okay with this process (got in at schools ranked lower than top 20), but we are not Sidwell folk, and we have a limit to how much we were looking to spend on college for DC.

We did a LOT of research for undergrad and it helped.  My kid's CCO was pretty good, which we augmented with our own research. We googled a lot, and read Selingo's book, among many. We took trips to campuses and talked with alumni BEFORE even applying to the schools, and so much more. My DC drafted their list and completed the application/essays/etc. without the CCO.  We had minimal/basic access to Naviance. And it worked out, I think because we were very assertive in wanting this to work for our DC.

As a parent, I think it's critical to be very involved with the process if you are looking to reach a desired outcome. Can't say that it will help everyone, but it helped us out a lot. I think there may be this thought that "I paid for DC to go to xyz school, and they will handle this for us" mentality. I think for us, a nearly $400k investment of our dollars for DCs college was enough for us to want to understand this process as much as we could, inside and out, and to ensure that we set up our kid to have some good options, which they did.[/quote]

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