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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why?

Asking seriously.

Your kid has their record and their preferences for what setting and locations they are interested in.

They should put a list together commensurate with their record and interests.

What anyone else has done literally has nothing to do with how your kid should be thinking about the process and results.

You have NO idea what hooks or achievements someone else going to a target schools might have. You have NO idea is someone is full pay or a 7 figure donor.

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Speaking only for ourselves, we would have found it helpful. Honestly, though, at some point the somewhat (seemingly) arbitrary choices by the school about what to be transparent about, when to be transparent about it, and how to be transparent about it (or not) got a bit tiring and more than a bit frustrating. We often felt like we weren't on some inside track others knew about or weren't fully aware of how certain games were played. This isn't sour grapes; our kids did fine. But we often felt unnecessarily lost. That's just our perspective; I'm sure there are others.[/quote]

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