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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The highly curated, consultant-driven, prestige-fixated families that resort to this kind of thing are typically only fixated on a few schools:

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, and Penn. And it seems to work. Those six are nearly impossible to get in for otherwise brilliant but unhooked students.

The rest of the top 25 - from MIT to Michigan - are filled with really bright and ambitious students who got in on their own merit. No one is locked out of [b]Cornell[/b] or Rice or Brown or Notre Dame or whatever because they didn't use a $250,000 college counselor. [/quote]

From the article:

Among his clients, 24 earned admission to Yale, 34 to Stanford and 48 to Cornell.

Those numbers seem fairly proportional to the size of the schools.[/quote]

was this in one cycle? how many clients did he have that cycle? I see Crimson ads a lot. I'd think they'd have thousands of clients.

Sarah H probably has numbers like this and she doenst arrange for tutors[/quote]

Yes, from the article. It was one cycle:

"This year, Beaton’s clients made up nearly 2% of students admitted to the undergraduate class of 2028 at several elite schools including Brown, Columbia, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Among his clients, 24 earned admission to Yale, 34 to Stanford and 48 to Cornell. The acceptance letters were certified by PricewaterhouseCoopers and a list of students admitted was provided by Beaton to The Wall Street Journal."[/quote]

let's just be clear that those are the same kids.  Half the yale kids got into Stanford etc.[/quote]

There is some double counting for sure.  But Yale has a yield of 70%.  Stanford has a yield of 80%.  Cornell has a regular decision yield of 50%.  Few kids are getting into several top schools.[/quote]

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