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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Can’t you just apply early decision? Or say in your cover letter “Note: my school Hufflepuff Academy has indicated that they do not approve of my applying to your institution, rest assured that whatever they may have told you I actually love Penn and am desperate to go there?” It’s usually the same admissions officer reading all of the files from a particular school for several years, presumably they’d eventually catch on if a school kept insisting that certain students didn’t want to go there.[/quote]

You can apply anywhere you want ED. If you don’t get in, you apply to four RD.

You are underestimating the reliability of TT college counselors. Penn is a stand in for that sixth school they were told not to apply to. The counselors know their true number 1, 2, 3 etc. When an admissions officer gets a call that a student is a bad applicant, they have 9 other applicants who can take the spot. [/quote]

Why would they take the school's word on that, though?

Also, if a school did keep steering them away from the students they would otherwise be inclined to pick, wouldn't that lower the perceived quality of the school? If they're willing to take five kids from your school, five of your kids are in the A pile and five of them are in the B pile, and you talk the school out of offering spaces to three of the kids on the A pile, they're going to end up with two A's and three B's instead of five A's, and maybe next year they'll only take two kids.[/quote]

Because schools like SPS send a bunch of kids to ivies each year and counselors promise admissions what type of product they are getting with each applicant. They need that rapport for institutional advancement and to get students in. If a kid acts like a putz and flouts rules for an advantage over his classmates, there will be consequences. [/quote]

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