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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Rick Singer thing seems fairly minor here. He was hired as an “expert” on college admissions. If you read it, apparently his credibility was questioned even then.

But what’s more interesting here are the actual claims. While it mostly seems to be sour grapes, there may be some elements of truth. Also interesting that the counselor recommendation has different ratings for different schools. I always assumed the ratings were against the overall class but Sidwell says it’s against the pool of applicants to a particular school. Do the counselors clearly can pick and choose who they want to direct to a school. [/quote]

If 15 kids want to apply to Yale ED and 10 of them have hooks, the other 5 do not have a complaint when they are denied. If the student in question was up against classmates who were better hooked than she was, then she probably ignored the advice of the college guidance staff to pic a few safeties. Students generally are dissuaded from applying to more than 9-10 schools. She probably chose all of the Ivys, Stanford and like Amherst and Williams or some such and got denied by all because, hey, they are very selective schools. It is also hard to understand that she is at Penn now after a gap year, Sidwell had to have provided transcripts and recs for that to happen, so a lawsuit, particularly with all the appeals, seems strange.[/quote]

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