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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is neglecting the multiple other factors related to college admissions.  High achieving well balanced students who fulfill the demographics in which colleges are seeking to attain at any given moment in time will be accepted and all others will not.

Truly high achieving well balanced students who meet the criterion in which elite colleges are seeking will be accepted to such schools. Students who fail to meet those standards will not be accepted as freshmen to those school regardless of the reputations of the high schools they attended.

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This is a sane analysis, except I think the latest fad in college admissions is to accept kids with a "passion," who excel one or two areas, instead of the "well-rounded" kids they sought to admit in the 1980s and 1990s. From what I've heard, admissions committees now laugh, laugh I tell you, at the kids with 20 extra curriculars all over the map. Not saying this is fair to these kids. But it is the current trend in admissions.

In any case, it's certainly true that no Ivy is going to accept more than a couple of kids from any school, even a top 3 DC school. I don't have a feel for whether attending a super-competitive private raises, or lowers, your admissions chances relative to excelling at a good private like Bullis.[/quote]

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