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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all this talk of kids with top scores, top grades, and good EC's ABSOLUTELY not getting in to HYPSM -- well, we know that each year, some kids get in from the top privates, RMIB, Blair magnet, as well as the Bethesda public schools, at least.  I thought that at least some of those kids didn't have EXTRAORDINARY awards and EC's, but that it was basically a lottery and so you couldn't count on getting in that way and likely wouldn't.  So could some of you who have had kids get into HYPSM chime in here?  Did each of your kids have that national award or extraordinary EC?  [/quote]

It's NOT a lottery. That is just what is thrown around to make rejected applicants feel better. To answer your question: the kids I know who got in ALL had something. In other words, high scorers with volunteer, school clubs, internships...did not get in. The ones who got in were URM, athletic recruit, talent recruit, intel/seimens winner, presidential scholar. When you have 35K applicants for 1500 spots think about it. They will accept 750 of your kids gender. Out of those 750, 250 will be URM. So now we are down to 500. Out of those 500, 100 will be athletic recruits. Now we are left with 400. Take out 30 for special cases...Malia etc. Now we are down to 370. Gotta take from 50 states and international. So if you are in DC/MD area, you are down to I'd say 30 girls tops....and you know they will have legacy status among that pool, and incredible talent in that pool. And don't forget they like low-income..so they need that from those 30. And they take 40% from private/religious...so that's 12 white girls from private and 18 white girls from public in a very large metro area.[/quote]

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