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

This is so DCUM.  Translation: “My kid is a perfect snowflake, so your kids must be cheating. Also, I’ve never heard of the (widely known) iPhone apps that you mentioned so I’ll disbelieve you and mention the one dozen year old desktop package I’ve heard of.”[/quote]

More misrepresentation. My point is “my kid is not a cheater and you will not accuse him/her without evidence. There is another poster who has repeatedly called public kids learning remotely cheaters while asserting that only private kids with proctored test results have transcripts that can be trusted.

I’m not even going to argue with you on the iPhone apps. But alpha will do many integrals that other packages won’t do.

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