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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know where connected/legacy/big donors’ kids go. How about academic superstars who are unconnected and full pay with top teachers’ recs? This is a kid loved by teachers in the toughest most advanced subjects, asked to be TA where 95% of classes don’t have a student TA, who has 3.9 GPA where no one gets a 4.0. Otherwise unconnected, no sport, not URM, nothing special ECs (head of robotics club, part-time job type stuff). We know it won’t be Ivies, Stanford, MIT, but where? School sends at least 20% to top 10 schools each year, 50% to top 25; we imagine they are mostly legacy. [/quote]
The ones that are at the top of feeder privates and fit the description above (toughest classes, top scores) go to ivies or Stanford and such, as long as they convey in ECs and essays that they care about something outsidebof class and they have made an impact. This can be done with more routine ECs. [b]You said the school sends 20% to top 10, no way most of those are hooked! [/b]You need to ask how many are unhooked. Harvard-westlake high school publishes data on unhooked v hooked but many other schools will tell the parents in conference. 
Our less-feederish-than-yours HS sends about 10-12% of a 105 student class to ivies/t15 and just over half each year are hooked(legacy, recruit, questbridge, urm). Counseling verbally goes through the scattergram differences but does not put the hooks in writing. Result has been 5% of the class goes to T15/ivy unhooked, most in ED but the very top ones get in RD often to more than one. The students at the very top with top everything are told to apply to several reaches and encouraged to reach high, and are not encouraged to ED of they do not have a favorite. The ones who are in range but near the edge of threshold of being the very top are discouraged from anything other than ED to a t15. You realize the counseling differences when you have gone through it with a superstar unhooked 2023 kid (got in RD to multiple t10/ivy) and then a top-rigor 3.9uw but not superstar top of class kid (ended up ED to an ivy typically ranked usnews 15-18 and they got deferred ED then in RD). We appreciated the honesty with both. 
The problem is most parents who have the latter excellent amazing kid do not have personal experience with the former, a true superstar academic outlier, and they do not realize they are different even from feeders. 
Our school has never sent 20% to top 10 as yours does thus it should be easier from your high school. [/quote]

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A large share of hooked applicants did very well academically.
A small to medium share of legacy kids did poorly academically and are not going to ivies.
Some legacy kids matriculate to school that is not parents' college.

Academic powerhouse always stood out regardless how many connected kids in school. [/quote]

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