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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of this has to do with admissions advocacy, involvement and interest.  It's not the chief factor, but it is a factor.  NCS saves the interest for certain students.  This is the disconnect.  A B+ student with good test scores and activities should not be ignored.  Is seems as if the school just wants to place these girls somewhere, anywhere.  Not talking Ivy here-admissions just doesn't seem motivated other than to say "next".[/quote]

If true, that's a problem.  Of course, NCS (or any school) can only advocate for so many people at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.  And they're likely to do that for the students who have the best chance of getting in there.  However, every school has a majority of the class who's not getting into one of those places, and it should find the best realistic school for those students and advocate there (whether Trinity, or USC, Wesleyan, U Mich, etc.)[/quote]

Parent of NCS senior.  NCS, like any school has its issues.  IME/IMO, advocacy for all the girls during college admissions is one of its strengths.  Obviously not all can go to Ivys or other top schools and some of the decisions at these schools have nothing to do with the college guidance office (number of recruited athletes and legacies). But the CG office works hard for all the girls and works the phones as appropriate.  It seems that the above poster with the disappointed results had undue expectations. The school does not ignore underachievers and I am fairly sure that the parents knew about the problem and was probably given different expectations and goals for their child. [/quote]

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