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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS, Sidwell, STA/NCS.[/quote]

This May be true but the schools promote athletes , female stem, under represented minorities , legacies because they will have the easiest time getting in. So maybe your kid is getting a great education but if s/he has those other things they can be from any school and it doesn't matter[/quote]

Not sure that this holds up under actual inspection.  The students I know getting into the most selective colleges from our independent run the gamut, and the mix is pretty consistent with the overall school demographics.  Further, there are almost no athletic recruitts to Ivy schools.   A few division III athletes to SLACs, but very few otherwise.  The female STEM bias is in direct response to the expressed demand by the colleges themselves, and the fact that tracking is much more prevalent in these subjects, allowing the high flyers to develop a transcript with lots of advanced level courses (BC calc, multivariable, Physics 2), which is less the case in the humanities where there is less opportunity for differentiation.  I actaully disagree pretty strongly with this policy.  In practice, when you ask the kids who are the strongest students they almost always talk about the kids who got bumped two levels in math and rarely about the best poet in the class.[/quote]

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