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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When trying to decide which school to send your kid to here in the DC area, be warned: do not choose a private high school on the basis of how many of their grads go to  Yale, Princeton, etc.  because a number of those admits will be legacies or children of well-known people, or even minority children who are accepted on the basis of affirmative action.  Sometimes that can work to your advantage (assuming you aren't in one of those categories) --if your kid is a straight A student and the college in question admits a vastly inferior student-- they may have to take your kid as well to make it look good.  But not always.  Some high schools actually discourage kids from applying to colleges they might reasonably expect to get into because the h.s. is tagging those spots  for some favored kids--and often an elite university will admit only so many for diversity's sake.  A good question to ask is how many smart kids of ordinary folks get into top schools?  That statistic will mean something.  I am in a position to refer applicants I interview to a particular ivy so i know a little bit about it.   [/quote]

The problem is that these "unhooked" applicants, i.e. those that are not legacies at the Ivies, are going to face the same problem at any DC-area school they attend, whether private or public. Each the top area publics (e.g., Whitman, Betheda-Chevy Chase, Jefferson) and privates has a handful or more of HYP legacies and other Ivy legacies. On another thread, a poster suggested sending one's unhooked child to the type of no-name private to which Ivy alums tned not to send their kids, but what parent in her right mind is going to choose a school that no one else who has a choice would choose???[/quote]

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