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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids who are at Andover aren't there because they are specifically targeting Harvard or its peer schools. [/quote]

This.

It’s about networking with a certain peer group…often as a legacy. [/quote]

Going to Andover is a bigger deal to some people than attending Harvard these days.[/quote]

100%

There is a group of prep schools that are now functioning the way Ivies and their peers used to, from a social perspective. The Ivies were never a purely academic affair.

Andover
Exeter
St Paul’s 
Deerfield
Hotchkiss
Choate
Groton
Lawrenceville
Thacher

I’m sure a few other schools as well? You leave these places with a network of national (and a splash of international—but just a splash, thank you!) friends. And a very high percentage of them will have influence which might be helpful to you. You, of course, will help them as well.

Yes, they also offer terrific aid and social mobility to many students. And that is awesome. But the concentration of mutually useful kids is too high to go unnoticed. 
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