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[quote=Anonymous]I've been interviewing for an HYP in this area for many years.

1) Every year, some of our strongest applicants are legacies. Bright, type A parents tend to raise bright, type A kids, and they also know how to play the long game in positioning their kids (for example, by encouraging depth, not breadth, in extracurriculars, a processwhich starts in middle school).

Every year, though, the college for which I interview takes legacy kids that are not among the best in the applicant pool. There are ,indeed, often non legacy kids at the same high school who are stronger applicants by all objective measures. I find that discouraging.

2) I am not privy to all of the contact between admissions officers and private school college counselors. Most privates in this area have track records formed over the course of several decades, and those  may be hard to budge. However, the college counselor shenanigans that I have seen all have involved getting kids in off the waitlist over the summer. These have been delicate negotiations involving offers to start a semester or a year late, or some sports team needing a replacement.  I think they take place over the summer to be free of the prying eyes of other parents or counselors at less connected schools. When fall rolls around, the secondary school quietly adds one or two more to their list of Ivy matriculations, but they don't have to field awkward questions about why Baseball Bob or Richie Rich was shoehorned into HYP over  th eir classmate Intel Imogene, who is already happily ensconced at Carnegie Mellon. I assumed this ability was why parents fork over 40k for private schools with indifferent STEM teaching, and that this is why schools want a good college counselor.[/quote]

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