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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this happens at many schools.
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Just because it happens at many schools does not make it right. Private schools cannot rely only on large donors and financial aid students. It is not a sustainable model when tuition is skyrocketing. If these schools continue to coddle the large donors, athletes, and lifers, in the college admissions process, guess what? The "middle class" families will leave and fewer will want to enter. Everybody paid the same purchase price to attend the school, they should be treated fairly and equally. In fact, non financial aid families who are full pay but not big donors, sacrifice a lot of their income to enable their students to attend private schools. Their hard-earned money is wasted because the schools don't care about their students in the college admissions process.[/quote]

I think the truth is that the private schools have very little influence over what kid gets into what college. It is determined by the kid and parents. Kids that get into T20 schools are either hooked (VIP parent, legacy parent, URM, recruited athlete) or the kid has a >3.9 GPA and is top 15% of class.

You are totally correct that parents paying full freight with no hook and a kid with a 3.6-3.8 GPA get screwed in that the kid ends up in a college that they could have been accepted to from a public high school.

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