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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that invites picking the nit on certain kids per their "story" and that is not for best. 10 from Sidwell to Yale is a freakish outlier, there is no other way to put it. My son's boarding prep one year had 8 kids to Yale, which hadn't happened before and is unlikely to again. 6 kids were sports related recruits, and the other two were good students with hooks royale. One was a Bass family from Texas kin, and the other was Charles Johnson's nephew. Yes, THAT Charles Johnson.[/quote]
9:39 posting.  I'm not asking for any details on particular students or their stories -- I agree with you that it's inappropriate to post such details.  I'm just asking for clarification on the numbers.  Was it 10 or 11?  Is that an admitted number or a matriculating number?

And of course, my real question is ... Why doesn't the high number of Sidwell students to Yale disprove the "school quota" claim?  Or alternatively, why doesn't the high number of students from your son's boarding school that one year disprove the school quota claim?  When they occur, those high numbers are obviously statistical outliers, but why don't they prove that there really is no hard quota for any school?[/quote]

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