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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t dismiss PP niece’s story and I certainly wouldn’t think of her approach as arrogant. It is no doubt no different that what students at these schools with her stats have been doing for years. Things have changed in the last few years and these high schools have not caught up in their thinking.

Moving to a rural town from a tony private school in NYC junior year has to be one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in some time. do they think the colleges just don’t notice dalton on the transcript? [/quote]

You don't understand. Colleges want to able to check boxes. Very few actually give a c**p about true diversity. A strong (previously-at-Dalton) kid now applying from rural Maine is only helping them out.[/quote]

Maine mom here. I’m sure you know the people you say you do, but I’m just having such a hard time imagining that a family who was paying for NYC private would be happy in a rural Maine  public school. There are, in fact, some excellent publics in the circle of towns around Portland, but those are suburban professional towns with the same demographic that’s applying from all over New England and it’s a hotly discussed topic is there a “bump“ from being from Maine at all and the conclusion is that there is not if you’re from those places. Top performers at these schools get denied at most selective colleges all the time just like everywhere else in the northeast. However, once you leave  and go to the rural schools the opportunities just dry up, there’s not a lot of rigor, and Maine is a big rural State so you really don’t have the opportunity for community involvement and EC’s etc. like you do in other places. What IS a little bit different in Maine is that you don’t have the same volume of kids gunning for the most elite schools that you do in other places. The ones who are applying and getting in have incredible backgrounds with often some really quirky interesting stuff, but the pool looks different than it does come in from New Jersey or Long Island or DMV or NYC. [/quote]

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