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Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories. [/quote]

Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.[/quote]

Lol.  What year are you posting from?  It's not 35% of the class.  And HYPS are often one each, per school.  
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Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school.  I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.  [/quote]

what school is this?

Enquiring minds want to know.  :lol: 
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year.  It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year. 
I don't think it's GDS.  They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell?  Again, I don't think so.

I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.  [/quote]

Yes.  It’s Sidwell.  [/quote]

How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?[/quote][/quote]

2020 was 4: 1 URM, 2 legacy, 1 plain old smart kid. [/quote]

4 plain old smart kids. One is an athlete, but she literally could have picked any school in the country.[/quote]

2 smart. 2 legacy. [/quote]

2 smart.  2 smart and legacy,

FTFY[/quote]

Why is this last point so hard for ppl to grasp? Why should anyone be shocked when the kid of highly educated parents who become highly successful adults produce smart kids? No one acts surprised when athletic parents end up with an athletic kid. Same with brains. Not all kids are as super smart as the parents, but many, many, many are. It’s genetics *and* upbringing around smart people. Oh, mom’s a tenured professor and dad’s a surgeon? And the kid is really smart? What a shock! Any achievement that kid has must be due to legacy, not ability, because where oh where would it come from?  :roll: [/quote]

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