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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe 11 were admitted and 10 are attending.  One went to MIT instead.  1 was a sports recruit, 3 were legacies, one had a prominent parent, at least three were URMs, and one was exceptionally talented in the arts.

[b]Yale got a lot of criticism last year for admitting 1% of its student body from a single school.  I suspect it will not happen again on that scale.  Yale often admits 3-5 from Sidwell though -- nothing to sneeze at -- and I expect that will be the range this year[/b].[/quote]

My advice to parents is this.  You should not post in real-time on a public blog or website about your school's amazing(!) college admissions success using specific numbers and naming actual schools.  It can [i]potentially[/i] open up the colleges and universities who admitted so many of your school's students to scrutiny or questions (why so many from one school?  why no students from some other schools?).  I think discretion is better in the matter for many reasons, including the emotions and feelings of fellow classmates still working through the admissions process.

If you absolutely need to know, then having the students themselves publish an end-of-year student college list in the high school newspaper, or through a school newsletter, is better advised.  Those end-of-year methods are different because (1) by that point everyone has been admitted to some college, and thus fewer anxious students and parents pay attention, or care so much anymore; and (2) its distribution is mainly limited to those within the school community.  [/quote]

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