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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that at top schools,  [b]if you’re unhooked kid is private-schooled, white and UMC  they are held to a higher standard because it will be assumed that they had more opportunities. [/b]Asian students  and girls have a harder time because the competition is stiffer.  I don’t know if it’s fair or not, but we prepared accordingly, making sure that our DD used the opportunities of  her private school experience to the max, had top test scores and great ECs.  
On the other hand, need-aware SLACs with endowments  under 2 billion will assume that you are full pay if you go to private school, and if you’re super-rich that will help too.  [/quote]

The top schools are filled with white UMC kids so either there is so either the money outright is part of the hook/advantage in some way and/or many of the other “hooks” skew towards white UMC kids like legacy, athlete for certain expensive sports , big donor, faculty kids etc.

Also how is it a  “higher standard”. That’s actually the same standard - that you make the most of the resources that you have available. Maybe it’s how you look at it but if I gave you $100 and you made you a $10 return (10%) and someone else was given $50 and made you a $9 return (18%) in my mind the person with the $9 return did more with less not less with more.  So I agree that it was wise to make the most of the private school opportunities and test prep etc but I disagree that it’s a higher standard.[/quote]

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