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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The private school exmissions are driven by hooks. Donations, celebrity connections, golf games with university board members, etc. 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]

Unhooked private here. One at Ivy; other private T20. Full pay.

You don’t need to listen to secondhand stuff (“you’ve heard”). It just depends on your private school. At some private schools what you say is true and it does suck. Buyer beware.

Key for us: understand the (hooked) competition in your class and what it would mean to your application to overshoot. There are plenty of great schools in the top 20 or 25. No need to cluster around the top five.[/quote]

Also, our HS sends a lot of kids to WashU. I can attest that it is an attractive option for someone in the lower half part of the class. I know it sounds shocking when I type this. Sometimes 10% of the class gets in regular decision. [/quote]

Is this HS in NYC?[/quote]

Im not that PP, but its not surprising. WashU is very  much like UChicago for private high schools. We see a lot of WashU admissions from our non-DMV private as well. Its considered a "backup":

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1c6j73v/where_the_elite_study_the_t30_for_selective_prep/[/quote]

This quote frm the link is mind-blowing (maybe everyone else knew this?):

[b]High end privates accept about 40% private school students. About 8% of US high school students attend a private school. [/b]I just finished listening to Who Gets In and Why. That book quoted (I may be very slightly off) something like 18% of high schools account for 75% of elite college aadmissions.

The NYT put this all in a nice article for us not too long ago

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html[/quote]

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