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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best NE boarding schools get tons of kids into the Ivies, most of whom are not legacies. A lot are recruited athletes, though most are neither. [/quote]

My daughter goes to one of these schools and this is mostly true. But the downside is for every 4 Yale acceptances (for example) there are 20-30 qualified applicants who would have been first in their classes at their public schools and likely had a better chance of admission if not compared to their BS classmates. Every year the director of college guidance emphasizes that while their matriculations look great, the majority of seniors were still disappointed. [/quote]

They probably wouldn’t be first in their classes at top suburban public high schools or urban magnets.  It’s kids at these schools who have more of a striver mentality and, for several decades, had a reasonably clear path to an Ivy or another top school.  No longer, as the Ivies (and perhaps none more so than Princeton now) turn up their noses at these candidates while still favoring legacies, athletes, and the children of big donors or otherwise well connected parents.  [/quote]

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