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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't realize private middle school = Harvard admissions[/quote] Have you seen some of the acceptance rates? Many of the schools only accept 20-60 new students per class. When you consider hundreds apply, it’s very competitive. For our DD, who applied during non-entry year, her school only accepted 4-6 students. It felt like a dry-run for college applications. [/quote] It definitely help if the parents are VIPs (former cabinet members, elite authors, rich CEOs, etc). And we get plenty of those in DMV. Of course, they want such children as they are also meant to get admitted to HYP. When there are 5 spots, i bet most go to these and the rest have to be shared by some sort of diversity/strategy token, unless, of course the 6th grader is a virtuoso violinist or solved a math proof. [/quote]
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