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[quote=Anonymous][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. [u]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[/u]. ....[/quote]
This claim seems completely and totally at odds with the 11 admitted from Sidwell.  The only way your claim would be consistent with the 11 from Sidwell is if all 11 are highly hooked.  I believe the people who have posted here that not all 11 had hooks.  So how can your claim be true?[/quote]

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