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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same thing the private schools in England do to maximize their Oxbridge accepts. Open transparency, horse trading and lobbies for almost every capable student . Maybe you have to apply to balliol and not christs college or vice versa but it’s a lot better than fing up and going 2nd tier.

How deep and wide are the CCO relationships? Or do they only push what they know and let the chips fall?[/quote]

You understand that the days of a college guidance counselor picking up the phone and horsetrading a kid into a school are long since dead, right? Like, that just doesn't happen at all anymore.[/quote]

It happens less frequently than it used to. But it is not true that it doesn’t happen at all. And the Sidwell counselors’ collective inexperience at the school is definitely a disadvantage.[/quote]

They absolutely get a call asking them to force rank who applied to what department. Ask me how we know. Anyhow, worked out ok but not first choice but we were splicing hairs at that point.  Top 5 student. Asked to only apply to three total colleges. [/quote]
First, you know that they rank applicants to each school because it was reported in the news based on the Adebayo lawsuit. Second, I find it implausible that you would be advised to apply to only 3 colleges.[/quote]

The CCO ranks students for each school? Like if 10 kids apply to Harvard, there is a list of No. 1 to No. 10?[/quote]

If you are actually a parent, you realize that you can ask them directly? [b] If you are not a parent, I’m not sure why you are interested.[/b]

The reality is that the PPPs here are probably lying about their association with the school. There was a lawsuit and some things got made public, which everyone can read about. The people who worked at the school then have since moved on and if you want to know if they are continuing the qualitative rankings in the secondary school report, you can just ask them.

[b]I have zero relationship to the schools [/b]and what I see is someone pretending to be a part of Sidwell based on misrepresentation of outdated publicly available information. And they are doing this because they want to disparage a school they are not associated with? It honestly makes zero sense. 
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2019/07/08/suit-sidwell-friends-parents-shows-what-parents-will-never-accept[/quote]

Ok, you have zero relationship to the school, why are you interested?[/quote]
I’m not pretending to be part of a school community that I am not part of. Nor am I asking questions about said community anonymously on a message board. So no, I am actually not “interested”. If I was interested had a reasonable reason to be interested, I would do what normal people do and email the school and ask them. [/quote]

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