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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard Trinity in NYC this year has 9 kids going to Brown? that's wild![/quote]

NYC kids are typically very impressive and often with hooks too. I think there are 6-8 girls at The Spence School going to Harvard this year out of a class of 60! Half of Brearley’s class is going to Ivies + Stanford & MIT. Saint Ann’s, Dalton, Hunter, Stuyvesant all have excellent outcomes too. Nothing new there. These are their results (almost) every year. [/quote]

This is insane to me. Someone posted SA matriculation and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a school with such great exmissions. And SA has no grades or GPA![/quote]

T[b]he private school exmissions are driven by hooks. Donations, celebrity connections, golf games with university board members, etc. [/b]And URM. I've heard it sucks to be an unconnected kid at these schools - if they've got 6 connected kids applying to, say Princeton, they'll tell you to your face that they won't support your unconnected child's application there.[/quote]

Lol. This sounds like someone who's never gotten out of the house and doesn't know how the real-world works. 
What you are talking about is the Z-list. There was maybe 1 Z-list admission from our private HS this past year. It's not all or even many. Some years there are NONE.

The sad truth is that some private high schools are treated differently from public (even highly selective ones) high schools. They are driven by a long legacy of admissions, successful high-achieving grads who become successful alumni and contributors and have an advantage in the admissions process. They are not stronger students, but colleges easily recognize who is full pay from the cohort and PERHAPS who will start a legacy of "giving" once admitted. The "donations, celebrity connections, golf games" may be reality for 1-2 NYC high schools (I'm not in NYC), but it has not been our experience at all. Many families are dual (high) income in non-celebrity jobs who do not give donations before kids are admitted. Yes, they often do after kids matriculate because college development offices know to call them in the first semester and invite them to special events (yes, its happened to us).....

With the pressure schools are under, expect to see private schools be even more advantaged in this process. My advice if you are at a public HS, make sure your kid has ECs that show full pay/wealth as a proxy (sailing, fencing, equestrian sports, polo, competitive ice skating, aviation/flying small planes). Every single kid I know with those kinds of ECs got into great T25 privates this year from public AND private schools - perhaps they had a better story, but I do think money talks quietly. Colleges are now openly looking for full-pay students.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/hypothesis-feeder-schools-are-a-proxy-for-full-pay/3664604/4[/quote]

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