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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]T[b]his thread is obnoxious. [/quote[/b]]

I agree and have been baffled by all the "HYP" "HYPSM"  "Stanford EA vs Yale EA" "Columbia double legacy"  "Is Cornell an ivy?" posts in the last month.  Do the posting parents have any understanding of how difficult it is today to get into these schools?   It's not a popular phrase, but it is a lottery.  Your chances are miniscule even with perfect scores and legacy parents.  Why bother with all this posting.  Parents who are just entering this application season are far better off going to collegeconfidential.  At least there they will get a better sense of how challenging it is to get into some of these schools and how they have to keep telling their DCs that it is like going to Vegas - don't get your hopes up.[/quote]

I agree +1000.  I just had 2 kids go thru the process.  But every time we say it is a lottery, some parent will chime up - 'oh,no, my DC had good grades and nothing else and got in to HYPS'.  So until these people go through the process themselves, they won't believe those who had just gone through the process.[/quote]

Well, the parents chiming in to say "my kid got in" just went through the process too!  I agree that those who "won" are less likely to think it's a lottery than those who didn't.  But both sides have experience and each side has an investment in a particular narrative.

What's potentially useful in this thread is the message that it's not a winner take all scenario.  Figure out what you covet about HYPSM beyond name/status and you can find it somewhere else as well. [/quote]

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