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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]

But of course.[/quote]

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