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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the new H-W handbook is rather shocking. There's a 50% admit rate for Vanderbilt applicants with GPAs in the 3.2-3.299 range. There's even decent chances at Stanford and Yale if your GPA is above 3.6.

https://students.hw.com/Portals/44/handbook0125.pdf?ver=mCSTXqyrt4IYDI-PvMShlQ%3d%3d[/quote]

Overall Vanderbilt is 8 accepted out of 83.  You would have to consider that the lower GPA accepted students are athletes or otherwise hooked.[/quote]

Full pay and ED is enough of a hook for Vandy. Isn't Gwyneth Paltrow's kid one of these acceptances?[/quote]

BCC has at least 6 seniors going to Vandy next year. As far as I know (and I know 4 of the kids families) none have hooks.[/quote]
way more impressive than bunch of rich kids with connections getting in.[/quote]

… Do we realize how much it costs to live in-bounds for B-CC high school?[/quote]
Sure, but most probably can't afford to pay $70/year for k-12, and another 4 years at $90K/year.  There's rich, and uber rich.  Harvard Westlake has parents who are uber rich.

Sounds like a horrible environment,  tbh.

[quote]2002 book The Gatekeepers as “a high-powered school for the sons and daughters of many of Hollywood’s royalty.” The reputation hasn’t changed much. In the 2021 book Guilty Admissions, Nicole LaPorte called it “a rocket launcher to 21st century success.”

A 2019 poll in Harvard-Westlake’s student newspaper, The Chronicle, found that of 317 student respondents, 111 reported having thought about suicide and 182 reported experiencing depression. [/quote]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/harvard-westlake-tragedies-students-1236085320/

I don't know that BCC has that many parents who have the types of connection that parents at HW has.  I'd rather my kid not be surrounded by that much angst and depression. Being a teen is hard enough. That place sounds like hell for teens.[/quote]

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