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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1.  Is "tip" the new word for "hook"?  Or just OP's word for a category that she has expanded to include students getting extra time?

2.  I find it borderline offensive that she appears to have asked her child* to list specific students that, for example, get extra time.  I am also a little skeptical that she or her child would know everyone's specific legacy status.

3.  Very sad that all of elementary and secondary school appears to have telescoped down to just college admissions for the OP.

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If you look at a lot of the admissions discussions on this website they are about ivy admission numbers. There are many advantages in a private education, but a lot of people are mainly interested in the preparatory nature of these schools. 
I am sorry if you find it borderline offensive that my child told me who had extra time. My child was outraged that people all of a sudden in 11th grade were taking 3 AP courses and getting extra time in all of them FOR THE FIRST TIME in 10 years. I asked her how many in her AP US history class section fell into that category- she said 50% !! Some of them were concussion extra timers who had not quit their sport, not taken any time off, still taking 3 APs- and getting extra time. I genuinely felt sorry for these children and thought the school ought not to have allowed it. But I also felt for my child, who considered a lot of it cheating .
If your child is in a school for 12 years and you are even marginally friendly, interested in people, sociable, and interested in their children, and an active volunteer at the school, then you can easily know where the parents went to college.[/quote]

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