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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minus the kids who were legacies from their parents. At my kids, TT I was told it’s lucky my kid is a double legacy because if they weren’t they wouldn’t even be allowed to apply to a HYP. Actually, weirdly mentioned the former head of Brearley as someone who really kept those slots for big donors to Brearley and played particularly dirty pool for who was let to apply to those schools or who the school would endorse, application-wise. my kid would die before going to my alma for reasons I won’t go into here. But you can’t just look at their percentages. They also don’t publish how many of the kids going to Harvard have been there since kinder and what percentage of kinder does well in their HS. For all you know the kids who got into harvard are the ones who didn’t go to the school since K.[/quote]

"Wouldn't be allowed to apply" sorry, how exactly would they prevent that? If I were a Brearley parent and they told me my daughter couldn't apply to Harvard, I would apply anyway, forward that letter to Harvard's admissions office as an explanation for why Brearley was withholding my daughter's transcript, and CC Brearley. If it was simply a matter of withholding an "endorsement" I would trust Harvard to see through that.[/quote]

They can’t prevent you. I would imagine that that poster has zero affiliation with any private school. I would also venture to guess that the majority of the posts are based purely on rumor or shoddy data. However, in my experience, it is true that they don’t necessarily encourage certain people to apply to certain schools, and that’s pretty consistent across tt’s. They also have good reasons for it, too. Some kids simply don’t have the grades to be competitive and guidance can actually be really good at their job in some ways. In other ways, they can be terrible. During my time at trinity, they weren’t exactly encouraging to students who wanted to attend schools for fine arts-based courses, which was pretty demoralizing to some friends of mine who wanted to pursue those fields. But no school is capable of telling you where/how/why/when to apply to any schools. [/quote]

There are boarding schools that say you can only apply to a certain number of safeties, reaches etc. Of course, you can submit an application on common app and flaunt the rules. Have fun when the admission office tells the surplus schools you’re not serious about going there because you decided to Dare To Be Different [/quote]

Which boarding schooos limit the amount of colleges you can apply to? Show us.[/quote]

SPS, at least until 2015.  You only applied to five, two of which were reaches, unless you had a rare and compelling reasons (you have buildings named after your family at Harvard and Princeton, but you are into science and MIT wants you for crew and you cannot decide in October).  Others do this, they would never say it on their website.  As said, you can always apply to more than five yourself and the schools will send your HS transcript.  Good luck when they tell Penn "She has zero interest in going there and won't matriculate" and undermine you.[/quote]

Direct us to the policy, please. I’ve found nothing indicating a limit on the number of colleges you can apply to.[/quote]

They’d never write out the policy publicly, for reasons you can probably surmise. [/quote]

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