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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brand new poster to this thread and one with zero affiliation with NCS.

I don't know if OP is a so-called "troll" or not.  But her original post did not disparage URMs or legacies one iota.  She merely asked what the outcomes were for applicants not falling into those categories.  It's a fair question, and OP didn't deserved to be attacked for asking it.  Lots of defensive parents here.

NCS girls rarely apply to Notre Dame, the nation's most famous and selective Catholic school, for obvious reasons.  It doesn't surprise me that none are going there.

If I were an NCS parent, I must admit, I wouldn't be thrilled with a BC or a BU or a Tulane either -- no matter how selective they've become.  They're great schools, sure, but plenty of public school kids get into them just as easily.

One of my daughters had a BFF all through public middle school in NOVA.  For high school the friend went to NCS.  The friend was, in every way, a "better" college applicant that my daugher:  better grades, more athletic, higher test scores etc.  Had her heart set on the Ivies, but rejected outright by most of them and wait-listed before being rejected by a couple.  Ended up at UVA with, guess who?  My kid.  I do wonder if this would have happened had she stayed in the local public, where she probably would have risen to the very top.

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Sorry but I went to school with many girls from NCS and trust me I can guarantee her daughter is more polished and probably a better student than your daughter. No I did not go to NCS but I was always very impressed with their abilities inside the classroom and out. People send their children to privates like NCS Sta Sidwell for the entire experience and in my opinion it does create a more polished and better educated person. You can just tell the difference. [/quote]
 I am also not at NCS but my daughter is, though we have not been there long. I am so impressed by the older girls at NCS. They seem so much more mature than I was in high school and I would bet most of them will knock college out of the park. These are the sort of people who are prepared to get the most out of the college experience, wherever they go, because they are used to being involved and talking to their teachers and being part of an intellectual community full of empowered young women. Such a different experience than most females have. These girls are heads above the girls I went to school with 30 years ago, even the ones who got into "top colleges". I find it absolutely outrageous that an adult would pick apart which colleges which student it going to. You have no idea why some people may prefer one school over a school you think is "better" due to a (sometimes arbitrary) ranking system. Some schools have incredible specialized majors or special programs you might know nothing about that seem very attractive to particular students, or they want to be somewhere specific geographically. [/quote]

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