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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please share which schools if you can[/quote]
Yes would be grateful if you could share for those of us with highschoolers in the 2021/2022 classes.[/quote]

Which schools?  Happy to share but need more specifics since a specific post wasn’t responded to.

1. Schools that don’t benefit from pull pay or 
2. Schools where holistic review and full pay I think helped my kid. [/quote]

#2 would be most helpful. Thanks![/quote]

It’s very simple actually.  It’s a very small number of schools that are both need blind and meet full need:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission

You can assume everywhere else it is either a benefit to be full pay or of negligible impact in admissions.[/quote]

They say that but that is not the case. My kid just went through the process. I guarantee you only ivies and top schools like a duke or Northwestern can afford to be need blind.  Top SLACs are not. They need the money. Schools also know coming from good dc area privates like Holton, Sidwell, GDS, NCS, Albans, and Potomac accounts for a lot.  Doesn’t help in every case and top 20 are still ultra competitive for unhooked kids but it makes a difference at schools like Tulane, Northeastern, William and Mary, etc.  SLACS like the Maine ones and few others, they need the money and they know coming from one of these privates a B student is strong and they take a wholistic review. Need good test scores and ECs.

If you are a B student, take challenging courses, do well on standardized tests, at some ECs.  My kid definitely punched above her weight and ended up at a top 10 SLAC. Lot of opportunity outside Ivies.  The top schools were hard even for high academic achievers that were unhooked.  It was hard during ED when hooked kids were getting in. Full pay is not a full hook because it doesn’t work everywhere. Hooked means legacy, athletes who are recruited, and black or Hispanic minorities.  [/quote]

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