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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am still as to what, if anything, is new here. Everybody is clear that hooks: athlete, URM, celebrity and to various extent alumni.  That is true across the board -- these kids have a high likelihood of getting in from anywhere. The question is, if you are unhooked, and there are 3-4 admissible hooked candidates from your school applying to Yale or whatever, does their presence significantly lower the chance of a high achieving unhooked kid relative to an unhooked kid in another school down the road?  Does that differ by colleges, HYPS vs. the rest of Ivy League + Chicago + Duke, say ....[/quote]

Yes, that is the challenge for the unhooked in classes populated with hooks. If your son or daughter is in a junior class with 1-2 recruited athletes and also 2-3 more kids who are overtly family and monetary hooked, that will foreclose on the chances for your unhooked and the other unhooked in the same class. In those instances is is better to be the unhooked top student at a local public versus the weighted coin at a select private; assuming the matriculation result is what you are intending the investment in a private school to be worth. Less than a decade ago a parent made quite a fool of herself suing Groton School because the nasty 'ole hooks system left her son -- an outstanding student -- out of the picture and prejudiced out of the Ivy list he wanted. That went nowhere, which leads to maybe an effort to tell HYPS, et al that their selection criteria needs fixing. That also goes nowhere. It is a winners curse of sorts in some instances to be a merit only applicant in a class where there are advantages to other kids in the same class...some fair and some unfair, and the debates get you nowhere.[/quote]

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