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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s nuts if it’s done for college admissions purposes. First, why upend your entire family to slightly increase your odds of a particular subset of schools. But second, it isn’t gonna work. A suburb of the Twin Cities isn’t getting an admissions plus at an ivy. The Dakotas, Idaho, Oklahoma - maybe. Not suburban Minnesota. That’s a highly educated region. [/quote]

This. Minneapolis is an incredibly large, cosmopolitan city. I’m from the midwest and this strategy just makes me laugh. If you’re going to try it, figure out if there’s a state that they have very few applicants from and move there. South Dakota? Definitely not going to be Minnesota![/quote]

Don’t you have to look and see what the MN high school’s college exmissions looks like?

If most of their kids are going to Big Ten /local SLACS schools, and only a handful are stretching for something like an Ivy or top 10; and your kid is obv competitive academically; then, the kid might have a much better shot of getting into a top 10 from that school then from a local private…… just based on where the kid might fall in the class.

High school is extremely important. It’s also important to know who you are competing with / understanding the cohort.

Does the school have an IG page?
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