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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can only enroll in one school. If you get into your first choice school, why do you need multiple offers?[/quote]

You don't, but I don't know why people are obsessing about this first choice process when it seems like other people who don't bother first-choicing are getting into multiple TT schools.[/quote]

We had one of the least impressive girls (also without legacy/family weight) in our class receive a TT acceptance to everyones shock. And the most impressive girl (also from a family that was equivalently so) get waitlisted at eight schools. This is where the preschool director came in, they worked to get her a spot for next year, though it was not TT.[/quote]

Impressive and not impressive in what ways? Can’t imagine how impressiveness is determined at 4 years old…[/quote]

Lagging in social and verbal skills. Highly doubtful that the parents were the deciding factor unless they were looking for something extremely particular to round out the class.[/quote]

How would you know? It could be the grandparents.[/quote]

Far from it. Both sets of grandparents are blue collar types from Queens and the likes. The parents are extremely awkward, almost as if they are a combination of starstruck and lost. One is a mid-level finance type and the other a generalist doctor type. They do value education greatly and the girl checks a diversity box on one side, though all of the classmates parents think the child won't be a fit at the school she is now going to. None of this is meant be judgmental. Just giving facts, you never know what moves the needle and what the schools are looking for in filling out their classes. Many are quick to shoot the PSD but you do have unexpected outcomes.[/quote]

My husband is socially awkward, so are a number of our friends. Our kids are all at TT schools in NYC and the west coast. We all went to Ivy schools with  advanced degrees and some have PhDs. Some of us have good careers while others have regular corporate jobs. Perhaps the TT schools like parents who went to good colleges and have advanced degrees even if they are socially awkward? [/quote]
Do you explicitly state your educational pedigree?  I never did at interviews, except in one case when the interviewer asked me point blank if I had gone to a specific very highly regarded university (I did, but found it rather inappropriate).[/quote]

You don’t need to bring it up in interviews. All the schools we applied to ask where you went to school and jobs etc in the application forms. Some even ask where you went to high school.[/quote]

We name-dropped our elite alma maters as subtly as possible, and tried to convey that we are very involved (this was in HS interviews). Knowing that an applicant has a slightly easier path to a legacy spot at a top school theoretically should help, though I don't remember where we mentioned it and where we didn't and the outcomes at the different places. Our backgrounds are very easy to find so if they wanted to they could have figured some of this out, though who knows whether they actually do the research or not.[/quote]

Did you decide to wear your alma mater’s hat or sweatshirt to subtly tell everyone? Seems like it is a thing people like to do. [/quote]

We were hoping that the tattoos on our faces of the state of New Hampshire and the fact that our child is named Dartmouth Hanover Smith would make the point...[/quote]

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