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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many of you think a couple of kids getting into Yale has anything to do with your kids? [b]Are your kids #1 in their class, volunteer at NIH, cello virtuosos and manage food banks? [/b]If not, the fact that your kid goes to the same school as that kid isn't going to get your kid into Yale.

There are schools where 10+ kids get into Ivy schools and the reputation of the school bumps them up, none of them are DCPS or charter schools. Most are New England boarding schools.

Every year this same thread pops up, and every year you all make fools of yourselves.[/quote]

Yes, my kid is this. It’s good to know that Yale knows abut my kid’s school so now he has a chance.
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An interesting thing that was told to be by the Dean of Admissions at an Ivy (a friend of mine from college) is that they do track the performance of kids from individual high schools in a variety of ways and that is included in the assessments that admissions folks consider. He told me that my high school was specifically tagged as kids overperform GPAs, so they are more inclined to deviate from their norms to allow in a kid with a lower GPA from my HS. He also told me that a ton of HS are tagged with GPAs unreliable (i.e., did not predict academic success at Ivy), so for those schools they focus more on test scores.[/quote]

I wonder how Walls, JR, Banneker, McKinley rate on this scale. And how they'll figure it for MacArthur without longitudinal data.[/quote]

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