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[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]

There are several different things going on here.

There are 1-2 posters (one from CalTech, if there’s another I’m not sure about affiliation) who are obsessive about pigeon-holing every college/university into a slot of perceived value. As if you could set some universal rank, a rank that everybody agrees on, for such different schools.

I get the double-legacy posters because they’re looking for info about what hooks they could leverage.

Agree it’s a lottery, but as the lottery people say, if you don’t play you can’t win. Just don’t set your heart on any one school.[/quote]

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