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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W school parent and longtime Ivy interviewer here. I haven’t noticed a significant drop in admissions to the very top schools (mainly hypsm). For the big 3 parents, I’d imagine that the increasing access for applicabts from traditionally disadvantaged backgrounds and weaker public is creating a lot of pressure for slots at roughly T30 but not T10 schools. So for the parents of kids who did ok and thought being a Sidwell grad was a kind of insurance policy, they are seeing kids slide further down.  It’s also the case that as you get out of T10 you start looking more at admissions policies y that downweight the soft parts of the application, where those big 3 kids tend to shine.

[b]For those who think the public kids are all racking up the 4.5w by cheating, that’s offensive and totally untrue[/b]. As someone with a degree from an Honor Code university, I won’t tolerate those types of accusations. Trust goes both ways.

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My DC has friends who opening admit to cheating!  Obviously not everyone is doing it, but you can't be serious that you think it's not happening to a moderate extent.[/quote]

As a college math professor, cheating is rampant. Obviously we have honest students but more students are cheating than I have seen in 30 yrs. and I only catch blatant ones who copy word for word from a website that makes no sense in terms of curriculum but ends up with the correct answer. Parents- check your kids phones and computers for Chegg (will do ANY problem) so don't even get on me about writing better tests. Look at photo math (take a picture and the problem is done!), Symbolab, course hero, mathway. I can't get over how many parents think their kids are so honest. [/quote]

As the PP of the bolded, after I point out that you misrepresented my point (which was about accusations against public school kids by a private school parent) as something about college kids (a mixed population of public and private parents), I’m going to point out that I don’t believe your claim to be a college math prof, because you’d know that Wolfram Alpha is the way to get a computer to give you the answers to symbolic math problems .... [/quote]

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