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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think Williams & Amherst belong in the “where Ivy rejects go category.” They have always been considered on par with even the best Ivies. [/quote]Not anymore they aren't. [/quote]

Agree with the opinion that Williams & Amherst are no longer considered Ivy equivalents regarding prestige. Excellent academics, but the first impression often is that the student is highly intelligent but, for some reason, didn't get any offer from an Ivy League school. Silly, but that seems to be a common reaction today.[/quote]

Wildly inaccurate. Same kids who apply to Dartmouth also apply to Williams.  People are not applying to Penn and also Bowdoin.

[b]I realize there are kids - mostly immigrant or first gen - who apply to all the ivies because the only thing they know or care about is saying “my kid got into an Ivy”.

But vast majority of people have a more educated view[/b] and care about where they’ll thrive and not that your mom’s great aunt who’s never heard of Pomona thinks.  [/quote]

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-1 legacies are just as invested in getting their kid into ivies.[/quote]

They're just as invested in getting their DC into a good school. BUT as a PP said, they're too sophisticated to let their kids "shotgun" all the ivies. 1. It's a bad strategy and 2. There are many better schools than the "lower" ivies - why waste an application there when it may be easier to get into a better school? [/quote]

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