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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, schools have their own interests.  But their primary interest is in making good matches -- because good matches make the schools they send other kids to happy and they make the families of those kids happy.

A school's ability to place kids is put at risk if they try to pass off dumb and/or poorly behaved rich kids as great candidates.  So if your kid is a great fit, their interest is in pushing your kid.  It's really only when you have a couple of kids who are both great fits when the other factors come into play and, even then, it's in the schools interest not to gild the lily but to say flat out "X's parent ran the auction or has been a major donor."  At which point your beef would really be with the admissions officer if you don't think that should be a voting issue.

The other thing to remember is that "good matches" aren't always synonymous with parents' first choices.  As should be pretty clear to anyone who reads this board, lots of people get sucked into these little cults of particular schools which end up signifying something desirable to them or bestowing status in some way that often seems to have little to do with their kids' personalities, interests, or needs.  That's what I meant about different flavors of koolaid being served elsewhere (here, the country club, the workplace, the neighborhood).   From what I can see, many peoples' dream schools for their kids aren't really based on reason or research, much less an understanding of how their kids learn or what kind of environment brings out the best in them.  Often, the people who are most attuned to that stuff are people whose kids are obviously exceptional in some way.   [/quote]

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