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[quote=Anonymous]Spots at the very Ivies and MIT are a lottery.  Perfect grades and perfect test scores get you a ticket to the lottery.  Then you can put your finger on the scale of the lottery with a combination of other things: 
URM, legacy, succeeding at an extracurricular at a regional/national level, coming from a particular school (both a big urban public like JR or a top private like St. Albans may get you this bump), but you really need a few of these things.  You're not going to routinely get in if you just happen to have the perfect grades, be an URM and be involved in city politics at a high school level.  OR have the perfect grades, be legacy and have attended Jackson Reed.  Or have the perfect grades, attend St. Albans AND be a chemistry olympiad champion.

I think sometimes a very challenging school like Basis (my kids are not there but are at NCS which also gives a ton (3-4 hours nightly) of homework) hurts it's graduates for spots at the top schools because the school work is so consuming the kids don't have time to really develop extracurriculars to a regional/national level.  So this potential bump is completely off the table for most kids.  And remember, you can't get in on grades/test scores alone----regardless of where you go to school (Basis, JR, Sidwell, St. Albans, etc).  [/quote]

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