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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The part that I can't tell is whether the hooked kids are actually blocking my kid's access to top schools or whether hardly anyone gets in without hooks of some kind (given DC suburban location). Perhaps all they are doing is lowering his chances from 25% to 10% at two or three specific reach schools. The latter would bother me much less given that most of this probably happens at ED and EA when the hooked kids are applying to only one school each at that point.[/quote]

Unhooked kids do get into Ivies from the more competitive local publics--I know quite a few, including unhooked DC who got into a so-called top Ivy. I also know 3 athletic recruits from the publics to this particular Ivy, but without exception they were from VA or MD magnets. Getting into a magnet in the first place is of course a different sort of hurdle. So this is all anecdotal, but make of it what you will.

Of course, Ivy matriculation may not (should not) be your only goal. There are many reasons we did private for elementary school and for many families the same reasons are still true in high school.[/quote]

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