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[quote=Anonymous]As others have noted you also need to look outside the tiny world of one school.  There probably are 10-20 other great similar applicants at one school.  there are probably hundreds in NW DC, and thousands in the US (and as someone pointed out vast numbers globally).  We went to the AU college fair for private schools this spring and my DD looked around the room and commented that the whole gym was filled with people who looked just like her, probably had a similar leadership, athletic, grade profile, etc.  On the other hand there are plenty of great schools with admit rates between 25% and 50% so some of this is about being realistic.  It is not realistic to assume that with a 7% admit rate all qualified applicants are going to get into Harvard.

The Sidwell thing is interesting.  I was at a graduation party last month and people were still bent out of shape about admissions.  One parent commented that her kid (shut out of ivies) was going to college X - which she hadn't heard of until he applied.  Clearly not happy.  I dont think it's about the money necessarily, but it's about all the work that's gone into making these kids perfect college applicants - NIH internships,  summer service in Nicaragua,  summer studies at Stanford, SAT prep, tutors, personal trainers, whatever - and then being disappointed with the results.  Hopefully all those activities were useful along the way but in some cases I am not so sure.[/quote]

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