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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never see WIS discussed but it appears to be just as competent at sending kids to the Ivies as STA/NCS, Sidwell, and GDS.  So why do we pretend it doesn't exist?[/quote]

Maybe because their admits are the token Italians, Ghanans, brasilians at the colleges they get admitted to? [/quote]

If the kids were born here, they are American regardless of where their parents came from. And those admitted to top colleges might just be very smart children of very accomplished parents. For example a son of a high level official at the IMF who was admitted to Princeton despite neither parent being a legacy. To get any meaningful comparison of WIS vs STA/NCS admits to top schools you would need to know the  share of legacies. I would be almost certain it is much lower at WIS. Many WIS parents are not interested in US colleges either because IMF kids get 75% of their tuition and any travel expenses paid if they go abroad. That explains the high proportion of top UK and Canadian colleges among their admits.[/quote]

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