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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I know so many beyond brilliant kids getting shut out, this is all starting to get meaningless to me.

My first thought when I hear someone got into a school like this in 2023 is what, arbitrary institutional priority/sob story/connection do you have?

My siblings and I have all of our degrees from the schools mentioned on this thread. I have little hope that the same will be true for my kids/nieces/nephews, despite stellar profiles. They will probably end up at state schools or lesser known privates and will hopefully thrive and do great things. [/quote]

This rings true.[/quote]

In our case this is true. One of us is a Princeton grad, the other Brown. We met at a different Ivy League law school.

Our kids applied to our alma maters and were waitlisted. DD ended up at Tufts and she loves it, is definitely thriving. Our DS is at University of Michigan and he is also very happy. We have one kid left at home and she said she doesn’t even know if she will bother applying to our schools. She’s looking at places like Case Western Reserve, where she thinks she might be able to get a merit scholarship. She is all about the “good deal” and couldn’t care less about going to an  Ivy.[/quote]

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