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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that definitely helps with admissions is being full pay.[/quote]

Full pay is not enough.  They have plenty of full pay applicants.  In my experience with three kids and their friends applying out to high school, most are full pay and the acceptances mostly tracked who was hooked for the top schools (family connections, knowing a board member, serious donation potential, athletics but only if they also had one of the other hooks as well).  For the next tier down, full pay was not really an advantage because most of the kids got acceptances.  So, full pay is not enough to be a real factor at the top schools and not as necessary below that coming out of another private school. Interestingly, grades and test scores didn't really track acceptances.  Some of the hooked kids were excellent students and some were not.  All were accepted.  Some of the unhooked students were excellent students and they largely ended up at slightly less competitive schools.

One of my kids was an excellent student and did get into a "Big 3" unhooked, but he got in off the waitlist after a couple of hooked kids at our school turned it down.  I think grades and test scores can help in that situation.  It can't move you ahead of the hooked kids, but it can leave you in a strong position to pick up the open seats after they have made their decisions. [/quote]

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