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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s roughly 400 kids graduating from DCs school this year.  The top kids have been in the same classes all 4 years and know each other’s ranking and test scores.  The top 2% of graduating class (8 kids) all had 4.0 uw and 1500+ SATs.  This is how acceptances went for them:

1. Carnegie Mellon (shut out of Ivies)
2. UMD (shut out of Ivies and top SLACs)
3. UMD (shut out of Ivies)
4. Johns Hopkins (recruited athlete)
5. Yale (first gen)
6. UMD
7. Penn (first gen)
8. Princeton (URM)

All great, hard working, top scores, excellent EC kids, but like PP said there just isn’t enough room for all high achievers at the tippy top.[/quote]

And all eight are pathetic for knowing each other's grades, rankings, test scores, and college application choices and results -- and any parent who knows all of this about all eight is even more pathetic.[/quote]

The kids share this information freely with each other and obsess over it for most of their senior year. Parents get the information without even trying. In fact, I think PP substituted UMD for another state school because it matches what I know about kids I’ve never met at our school. [/quote]
Goodness gracious. Which HS is this?[/quote]

I can almost -- almost understand kids "sharing this information freely."  Almost.  But "parents getting this information without even trying?"  Nope.  Certainly not to the point of remembering it all to the degree that this poster did.  That takes effort.  Unhealthy effort.  Obsessive effort.  Insane effort.
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I believe it. I did not know the details but I know the day certain schools came out my dc was on a text thread and they all texted yes or no at same time. I only knew because he mentioned it in passing like “ x,x, x going to Y.”  Z is not and sad so I’m going over. Something like that. They are a group of 7-8 all bffs from elementary - hs. My dc was the only one who wanted different experience so no need to be involved but these kids are close and they share a lot. They have had a group thread for years so this was no different. Will say none of the parents talk.[/quote]

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