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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]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]

It could have been a toss up between Yale and Harvard and then by the time RD acceptance came around, they liked Boston better than New Haven.  Not unethical at all.[/quote]

If both Yale and Harvard acceptances are RD, your argument makes sense. But Yale acceptance came out in December before the student applied to Harvard RD.[/quote]

REA applications are NOT binding and there is NOTHING from any of these schools to indicate they expect you to choose them if they accept you.[/quote]

Well, it's just sh%^ty to get a Yale acceptance and then continue to apply to Ivies.   It's common knowledge that your greatest competition is other kids from your own high school. 
A common max number of Ivy spots given to any one DC school in recent years has often 2 or even 1.  Gone are the days (if it's even true) of 11 Yale spots. 
I'm sure the kid with the Yale acceptance had MANY friends/classmates who were sitting on zero decent acceptances prior to regular decision.  But screw these kids--- they went ahead and tossed
in their highly competitive application regardless of what it would mean for to their classmates.

I get that this didn't break any legal rule but you won't convince me (or most other decent humans) that it wasn't crappy and low.  [/quote]

Just curious, do you have kids a SFS?[/quote]

No, at another Big3.  So far straight As through first quarter of junior year. I guess if the private school community is about every man for him/herself we can play that game too. I hope those of you encouraging this behavior have kids with 
very top grades. [/quote]

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