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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this should absolutely play a role in where you ED. If there are 10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes, move on. You're highly unlikely to get in![/quote]

At small privates, kids should ask counselor how many others in class are applying. Beyond that, kids talk. This isn't hard to figure out, especially the recruited athlete part. I'm sure big schools are different.[/quote]

I’ve seen this argument many times - that is, that things are different at “small privates” because of their size, so these things are more easily and readily known.  What’s left out of the argument is that it’s not the size of the school per se, but the mindset of the school student/parent population that makes the difference.

Our kids attended good public high schools in the DMV.  They were pretty serious students, as were most of their friends, and ultimately they attended highly ranked colleges.  There was never any discussion in our household on where their friends were applying to school, what their friends’ grades and test scores were, etc., and nothing that any of their classmates may have been doing had any bearing on their own college application decisions.  The most we’d ever hear was “Suzie wants to go to UVA but doesn’t think she’ll get in.”  Stuff like that.  That’s it.

It sounds like some of you are/were almost to the point of having charts and graphs on your kids and their classmates.  [/quote]

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