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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New admin at Brearley from a middling school upstate with low Ivy admissions (1 girls to Harvard in 4 years, 2 to Yale). Curious to see how that works out in next 5-10.[/quote]

So far Brearley has 5 going to Harvard, and the decisions are still coming in on the instagram account (they post about one a day).

So I guess the new admin from some random upstate school isn’t doing such a bad job 🤷🏻‍♀️ [/quote]

They’d have gotten in from Jackson MS High too. Their TT had nothing to do with it. Rich parents did. [/quote]

Agree to disagree. There are rich kids with legacy across all these TT and yet B manages to outperform. 
Just to add, I’ve spent a lot of time interviewing kids at a number of specialized public schools for HYP admissions and it made me realize that TT private schools help these kids become more self-aware and articulate than others. It is impressive. [/quote]

You don’t seem to understand. An eight figure donor, a squash player the coach wants, and a minority with a 1500 will almost certainly get into Harvard. These are the majority of TTs exmissions to HYPS. All B did was accept more of these families and draw from this pipeline. There are fewer of them at other schools. And the idea that Dwight has them in any appreciable numbers is laughable, a double Harvard legacy is too smart to pay for a school like that. [/quote]

What do you mean pay for a school like that?  Are you saying they’d rather pay for Brearley?  That Brearley is somehow more attractive to the applicants?  And why would that be?  If they can get in from anywhere, why go to Brearley specifically?[/quote]

A couple smart and connected enough to go to Harvard isn’t sending their kid to Dwight. Because it’s full of idiots. Because B sounds good at dinner parties and has a more August history. B didn’t do anything to get kids into HYPS, do you think their counselor has some crazy connections or ability to advocate? What is the secret sauce you think is there?[/quote]

They’re top students because they’re screened and then taught by one of the best schools in the country.  Not sure why you keep skipping that part as if all the students have is rich parents.  And please don’t call children idiots.  It’s very unbecoming and ruins whatever small amount of credibility you might have.  Can’t believe someone on a mother’s board would do that. [/quote]

Being intelligent and receiving an incredible education doesn’t lead to the numbers some of the TTs post. It is the parents’ connections and
Leveraging FGLI. Plenty of amazing educators can be found across the country at top privates in other cities.

Some children are idiots. Do you dispute that? Or do you think the ones who end up with 1200 SATs were hit on the head at age 8 and everything was dandy until then?[/quote]

Don't feed this troll, they are on all these threads cosplaying as an old money Manhattan elite from the 1920s. Same person who called suburban kids losers. [/quote]

All kids are brilliant and destined for genius-level academic performance. Thank you for clarifying your stance. [/quote]

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