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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These ivy league schools are money making machines. The education they offer to kids has only one purpose: to make them successful so the university benefits from later donations, PR, etc. If you have a extraordinary kid that doesn't fit into their success profile, your kid has 0 chances to get accepted despite scores, ECs, and amazing achievements. Their acceptance criterias are not pure academic based. They may accept a student with low scores but that raised a high amount of money for some random charities (kids in Uganda). You might think they value the charity aspect but in fact they value the ability to raise money (from friends, parents, etc). That make the student a good fit for their later donor profile.
Of course, there is a small percentage of kids that get in on academic merit. Unfortunately, we don't know what's the acceptance rate for those. I guess that's about 1 to max 2% at top ives. That's the reality of these schools, like it or not. [/quote]

I agree with you, PP. and I have a kid at an Ivy and married a person who went to one. It’s fundraising - all the way down. [/quote]

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