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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for your clarification.  The situation you describe is certainly one set of facts from which some parent might have suspicions that there might be some causal link between wealth and low-SAT admissions.  That same situation gets discussed on DCUM all the time, when parents draw inferences about what schools want based on which preschool children get accepted (or don't).  (E.g., "Johnny eats paste and can't spell his name, but still got admitted to Sidwell.  I bet it's because his mother works at the World Bank!")

Just because your view is based on circumstantial speculation doesn't necessarily mean it's incorrect -- your assumption that the OD must have given it may well be an accurate conclusion about who the OD favored.  But ultimately that's just speculation based on circumstantial evidence.  No matter how well you know those particular families, there's no way for any of us to know how their children actually came across to the schools.  There's no way for us to know how strongly the OD advocated for/against one or the other.  There's no way for us to know what role the target school's AD played in the admission decisions.  That's a lot of unknowns.

I was half-hoping you'd have some story where you (or someone you know) had directly talked to an OD who described her role in the process.  That's the sort of direct information that might better inform all of us.  If you are reading college admissions books, I'd recommend "The Gatekeepers."  It has a lot of discussion about the close relationships, and even gamesmanship, between ODs and ADs.  But as far as I recall, even that book did not suggest that ODs might tank a student's application.  (It's been a few years since I read the book, so maybe you've seen something I forgot.)[/quote]

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