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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is almost a straight A student in lower high school (a few A minuses). She works really hard for these grades.  I've been looking at the college admissions this year and it really seems like you have about 25 girls going ti top colleges and (outside of two girls) ALL are legacy, URM  or crew athletes. Then the admissions seem to go off a cliff. thank goodness for u of Chicagj because that seems it be the solo outlier. 
I am not looking for an IVY admit (at all) but I'm getting freaked out by the schools that girls outside of the above categories are attending. I won't name names but they're in instagram.

Tell it to my straight.  A/a- student. 
Did anyone apply their daughter from NCS  this year?  Where are we looking at?[/quote]

It takes more than straight A’s to stand out. That is on your daughter to stand out not solely on NCS. Why are you stalking private Instagrams of minor children? That is more concerning to me than college admissions. [/quote]

This is the thing that OP doesn't understand. Those athletes were outstanding at their sports AND had the same grades or better than OP's kid. You have to be more than a GPA chaser. Stop trashing the athletes. They are, quite simply, more impressive. The most disturbing thing about OP is that she seems to know the legacy status of these kids. How? And definitely looking dowon on POC at NCS. You sound like an ignorant racist OP.[/quote]

OP here.

My original post said, "my kid is a top academic kid.  Where can she expect to get in?  It would appear that admissions this year (almost to a person) required a hook on top of good grades".

Nowhere did I say or imply that the athletes or URMs were not worthy of their spots.   Stop suggesting otherwise.

My OP is a very reasonable post to ask for those of us (there are many of us) in the school without rowers, minority kids or legacy kids.

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It is tacky to post this here op. Ask the school. Posting and putting down some kids at your daughters school becaue kf where they are going to college is low class and trust me that’s why your straight A student may not get into the college of your choice. Colleges can spot a PITA parent a mile a way. All schools are seeing this literally ALL because more students are applying and applying to more colleges than ever before. Also lack of testing has also hurt kids at top privates because traditionally that is where they excel. [/quote]

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