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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all you care about are Ivies (but not Cornell and Penn) please just do yourself a favor and send your kid to private school.  Walls will never send more than a few kids to each Ivy a year.  [/quote]

[b]No one is getting into an Ivy from the top privates anymore unless their parent(s) went to the Ivy AND they (the parents) are VIPS or big donors. [/b] And maybe the very top two kids in the class.  Maybe.  (and that--(being the top kid)--is an incredible feat of talent and luck). 
It's much easier to get into an Ivy unhooked in 2023 from Walls than it is from Sidwell or similar.

Signed, a private school parent who has been watching this play out up close. [/quote]

Come, unhooked applicants still get in, just not much, right.  I've interviewed as a volunteer for my Ivy in the Metro area for 25 years.  Most legacy applicants to Ivies are rejected.  The problem is now that test scores are deemphasized in admissions, and Affirmative Action officially has been nixed, it's much harder to predict who will get in than in the past. [/quote]

uh, not really.  Last year (2023) at my kid's Big3 high school there was ONE unhooked Ivy matriculation (out of 20+ Ivies total).  This is down markedly from the days of old.  
The rest were all hooked. The strongest academic students who were not hooked (say the top 20 kids in the class) were shut out of Ivies and top 20 schools (except for the one.)

2024 will be interesting with the technical end of AA.  Who knows how this will work out in practice. [/quote]

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