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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can Sidwell's college admissions with their legacies, URMs and athletes have a worse outcome than a public high school like TJ? [/quote]

TJ is still a crapshoot, trust me. Every year they have 150+ kids apply to each of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, UPenn, Duke, Columbia. Each of those schools will send out at most 15 acceptances, [b]many of which are for the same top kids getting into multiple of these schools[/b]. At least Sidwell has more structure and organization among their counseling that doesn’t lead to a free-for-all.[/quote]
This is a great point and it mirrors my own HS experience. There were a few kids that got all of the awards and collected multiple Ivy acceptances and then a drop off with everyone else going to state schools.

Sidwell is trying to maximize chances for all students, which is very different than having fewer students with more exceptional outcomes. 
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ED helps with this a bit.  Can only ED to one school[/quote]

REA will not.  A kid last year accepted into Yale REA, and then applied Harvard RD and accepted, thus wasted the Yale spot.  If Harvard is your first choice, apply Harvard REA.  The Yale REA spot could go to another student at the same school.  A highly selective college only takes a limited number of students from the same high school.  The student’s strategy is getting into relatively easier Yale first.  Playing this kind of game is truly unethical![/quote]

How is that unethical? The student is good and has the right to apply wherever they want within the rules. Maybe they didn’t expect to get into Harvard and felt they had a better chance at Yale so they used REA for Yale. Then went out on a limb and applied to Harvard RD and got in.[/quote]

This student did not care about fellow students at her school.  The above posts talk about Sidwell is trying to maximize chances for all students.[/quote]

This school is full of type A parents gunning for Ivy League schools.[/quote]

Nothing wrong with parents wanting to get their kids into ivies.  But if you get into one of HYPS REA, gunning for another HYPS is not ethical.[/quote]

Not ethical? Please. Sour grapes.[/quote]

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