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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you looking at matriculation from top private high schools, here is the truth: if you have a high stats kid with no hook, the chances of your kid going to ivy is slim to none.  The ivy bound kids are mostly - athletes, development ($$$$), arts, and URM. Example - Harvard - 2 athletes, 2 high stats w symphony level world competition wind instrument, and 3 kids w connected and $$$$ parents. Your high stats kid w no hook would be guided towards UVA, Michigan, Wash U, U Chicago even though he may be a better student than the ivy bound kids. [/quote]

As parents, we all think our children are spectacular, but we really don't know how strong the rest of the class is. What really torpedoes a student's elite college admissions chances are their teachers who give them ho-hum recommendations. When 10-15% of the class applies to any single Ivy and the school does not rank, the recs determine the pecking order. If your student's teachers aren't writing how much they love your student on report cards, they're just not "special" enough for the tippy top colleges. While they will all try to make the strongest possible case for your DC, they teach a lot of typical smart well polished upper middle class teens.  But "UVA, Michigan, Wash U, U Chicago" are pretty good for kids born on third base who didn't have to hit a triple themselves. [/quote]

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