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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Genuinely shocked by how toxic some of these posts are. That said I've spoken with several very credible college admissions consultants and they all share a view that there aren't any true feeder schools anymore. There are Tier 1 schools with known standards of rigor that the TTs fall into along with top boarding schools, SHS's and also (critically) topic suburban publics. It sounds like coming from a top school is a check the box rubric like hitting a certain SAT score. After that it's all about the applicant's relative ranking in their class and how differentiated their story is relative to the rest of the qualified applicant pool.

Would be really curious to see if that's been everyone else's experience or if these consultants are more talking their book with their services being the easy way for an applicant to be differentiated. [/quote]

Yeah… also to add HYP admissions committee definition of TT is very strict which may surprise a lot of the posters on this forum. I’ve only heard 4 schools being repeatedly mentioned in the nyc private k-12 ecosystem. Everything else will take a discount, meaning they will take class ranking with a grain of salt and think there is a lot of grade inflation generally. Don’t come for me I don’t make the rules.[/quote]

Curious to know which 4 ? [/quote]

Guessing here but: Dalton, Trinity, Brearley and Collegiate?[/quote]

Actually not brearley because of the way they grade. And certainly not dalton. I think another poster mentioned, some privates schools recruit their class based on hook — especially for 9th grade. That’s why some schools look good for matriculation, but it has nothing to do with admissions based on academic excellence. It’s probably true that unless you rank top 10 at a real academic tier 1 private, you are better off at public. [/quote]
How can this be true if Horace Mann sends ~50 kids to Ivies+Chicago? At what public, would the HM student #37 have better prospects?[/quote]
Or did you mean for HYP specifically? And as far as I can tell there is zero grade inflation at HM (people think there is grade deflation…)[/quote]

Yes I meant HYP specifically, and they do respect HM. In terms of college outcomes— if you are old school about it,  there’s a very big difference between hyp vs Cornell/uchicago[/quote]

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