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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.[/quote]
Why would you conclude that TJ students (or Blair/Whitman/Churchill for that matter) don't have a parent who attended HYPS?[/quote]

How many Princeton legacies do you think go to public school at TJ?[/quote]

I always look for schools that do not have any legacy preference as a gauge. MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Amherst, Berkeley (and all the UCs), Michigan. Other than Michigan, there’s significantly less acceptances to all of these schools across the board, both public and private, leading me to believe legacy is a big factor in all the admissions stats. [/quote]

Aside from the SLACs, you are talking about STEM schools.

The only top STEM school with significant legacy is probably Stanford.

TJ has a reasonable number of MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU.[/quote]

Does STEM make a difference? Those schools have non-STEM too, and anyway most of the TJ kids going to Ivy+ are STEM majors.

I don’t know how many they really have but I see 0 MIT, 1 JHU, 2 Berkeley and 3 CMU posted on IG this year from TJ. Not many. [/quote]
You may want to check again...or are you confusing TJ with Sidwell, which has not had any MIT matriculation in the last 4 years![/quote]

DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...[/quote]
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions,  schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year. [/quote]

Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...[/quote]

No.  This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education.  Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences.  There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world. [/quote]

And they do get degrees from MIT, but not sending kids to MIT this particular year is far less of a red flag than TJ not sending kids to MIT this year...[/quote]

TJ send kids to MIT every year, including this year, they just don’t post it on insta, sofar only 30% graduates post on insta.
Also TJ sending plenty of kids to Ivies, mostly majoring in Stem.[/quote]

Plenty of people don't want to post about their college or other private matters in their life on Instagram.   Student run Instagram pages are not going to be a complete record of information for college matriculation data at any particular high School.[/quote]

Approximately 91% of Sidwell’s current seniors posted their college destinations on the Instagram page. It seems like they’re just proud of where they’re attending college in the fall. [/quote]
How many of them are going  to MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Berkeley?[/quote]

From Sidwell- just one Berkeley this year!

PP here- my point was not about exact numbers, just that when I see those acceptances I know they’re not legacy, whereas all the other Ivys I take with a grain of salt, as you can never assume legacy is not a factor. It’s interesting that every year, from TJ or Sidwell or Whitman, there’s significantly less acceptances to MIT/JHU/CalTech/Berkeley than HYPS. I think legacy plays a big factor in all the schools. [/quote]

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