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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is a shockingly vivid reminder of how corrupt the entire college admissions process is.  Top 10% of a private-school graduating class go to top 5 schools, next 10% go to the next 5... so the top *half* all go to T50 schools?

At my kid's public school, no one goes to any T50 school, not even the top 1% of a graduating class -- kids with perfect grades, 1580-1600 SATs, and course rigor generated in part by dual-enrolling at a local research university and out-performing the actual college students there.

I don't think your kids are smarter or working harder, but *half* of the kids at your kid's school are going to schools that *none* of the kids at my kid's school can even dream of attending. Good work buying your kid's success at the expense, in part, of my kid's success!

Of course, I already knew this was true, but seeing it exemplified so vividly in this discussion is nonetheless shocking.[/quote]

Average SAT at our school is 1500. So, I get that the top of the pool does better at our school, but it's a different pool. It was hard to get into it in the first place.

I have a kid who is 50% at our school - with a 1520 SAT - and it pretty much sucks for college stuff. Otherwise, it's been an excellent high school experience. [/quote]

Exactly. it can be a double edged sword at these feeder privates: hard to stand out when half the school has 1500
+ and are competing against each other in the highest rigor classes. [/quote]

And a majority of the class are legacies or double legacies at Ivies. [/quote]

Speaking deciles means nothing without accounting for legacies, development, [b]URM[/b], etc. Our school sends many kids every year to Harvard and Stanford, for ex, but the vast majority of these are hooked. Are many of them in the top "decile"? Yes, but not at all. But I can assure you the very top kids in the class who are unhooked are passed over for the most part in favor of the hooked kids. It's especially bad at Harvard and Stanford, but this logic filters down through the other Ivies. 
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It's now illegal to look at URM status.[/quote]

That has loopholes bigger than the Great Lakes. The "community" essay about the impact of racism on your life, videos, Black Student Union clubs, etc. are all proxies for the same thing.[/quote]

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