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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W school parent and longtime Ivy interviewer here. I haven’t noticed a significant drop in admissions to the very top schools (mainly hypsm). For the big 3 parents, I’d imagine that the increasing access for applicabts from traditionally disadvantaged backgrounds and weaker public is creating a lot of pressure for slots at roughly T30 but not T10 schools. So for the parents of kids who did ok and thought being a Sidwell grad was a kind of insurance policy, they are seeing kids slide further down.  It’s also the case that as you get out of T10 you start looking more at admissions policies that downweight the soft parts of the application, where those big 3 kids tend to shine.

[b]For those who think the public kids are all racking up the 4.5w by cheating, that’s offensive and totally untrue[/b]. As someone with a degree from an Honor Code university, I won’t tolerate those types of accusations. Trust goes both ways.

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My DC has friends who opening admit to cheating!  Obviously not everyone is doing it, but you can't be serious that you think it's not happening to a moderate extent.[/quote]

Pp is naive. My very much the rule follower kid told me that cheating was pervasive during distance learning, and she goes to a private with a strictly enforced honor code. [/quote]

I’m the OP in this sub thread. I’m not naive. Big 3 students cheat too. (Plenty of public news on this, Google is your friend.)

[b]The upthread implication was that the public school kids were taking slots at top schools by cheating their way to a 4.5w.[/b] Saying that is a bad look, at a minimum, and might be worse.

Having an Honor Code also means no accusations without proof AND no or no excessive monitoring during testing. If your DDs “honor code” means you signed something acknowledging you would only turn in your own work and the school proceeded to treat all the kids like they had zero ethics, that’s not an Honor Code, it’s just a piece of paper acknowledging you already know the consequences for getting caught.

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:shock: WTAH!

So, no biggie if a Big 3 student cheats because in your mind their cheating won't affect college admission, unlike the multitude of malicious, conniving public school kids who cheated all the way to a 4.5. And, in effect willfully depriving the mildly cheating Big 3 students their rightful college admissions. I've heard everything now. [/quote]

These are deeply privileged people who believe they have a right to convey their success to their children, whether the kids are smart/motivated/good students or not. When it doesn’t happen they attack the “regular” kids. [/quote]

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