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[quote=Anonymous]A good friend has three kids at a Big 3 school. She realized you have to look at the grade level your child is in and see how many recruited athletes and big donors there are. Her oldest had really good college acceptances and she feels like there weren’t a lot of really big donors/athletes in that graduating class. But her next child was stacked with athletes/big donors and feels like it hurt her child’s chances at certain colleges even though he had amazing stats. She felt like he was discouraged from some schools that athletes/donors’ kids were applying too.

Her youngest child she felt like it was another stacked year and her son wasn’t that into the private school. She moved him to public for high school and he ended up doing great in college admissions. She kept n touch with some of the moms and her bunch was correct. It looked like the private school did well in college admissions at elite schools but in reality so many were recruited athletes and big donors. A lot of really good students without hooks did not do very well that year in the private  school.[/quote]

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