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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, maybe the point back wasn't blunt enough. The Sidwell 10-11 or my son's school 8 does nothing to disprove the "school quota" claim. The quota gets blown if - and only if - there are factors like recruited athletes or the types of alum donor kin the college can't say no to. Those statistical outliers are not a candle that burns for hope, and does nothing to prove there really isn't a hard cap for concentration to one quality prep. Remember, in New England there are at least a dozen boarding preps believing they are the special one, and in DC alone there are a few day preps thinking so as well. That doesn't make it so. The 8 to Yale from this boarding school one year over the usual 3 maybe 4 was explained by legacy big bucks, soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse...not by the very special talents of that class at that school on itself. I would impute with due respect that the Sidwell 10-11 was constituted with several super freaky prestige / big money / legacy / political hooks and then sports. To believe otherwise is nuts.[/quote]

It's also the case that the pendulum will swing back the next year, as other members of the college admission committee will look to redress the balance with "their" geographical areas and schools.[/quote]

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