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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]T[b]his thread is obnoxious.[/b][/quote]
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?   [b]It's not a popular phrase, but it is a lottery. [/b] Your chances are minuscule 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 college confidential.  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]

Lottery is the wrong word. I mean, explain the kids that get into several elites? If it was a lottery they'd only hit 1, not 3 4 5...all of them.

I do think there's a lot more strategy involved these days with yield protection giving 50% of the slots to single choice early applicants.[/quote]

[b]I think this thread is helpful. There are many very talented kids every year who are considering not wasting their early card to the HYPSM lottery and instead going for slightly more attainable top schools. However, they have been conditioned to think that HYPSM is the end all. In ultra elite high school circles there is a certain element of snobbery when it comes to HYPSM vs the so-called lower ivies and other top schools. In many cases these kids apply early to HYPSM, get rejected and then they have to deal with the crapshoot of RD at the other elites. In many cases they end up not attending an ivy or top school because they passed on the chance of applying early to an elite ED 
school as opposed to HYPSM. [/quote][/b]

Then their parents don't understand the no. of kids accepted ED,EA, SCEA vs RD.  My DC got into every single one of his SCEA (1, obviously) and EA publics.  He and his friends did not get into a single one of their RD schools.  I firmly believe the admissions offices are cherrypicking in the EA/ED/SCEA applications.[/quote]

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