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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know where connected/legacy/big donors’ kids go. How about academic superstars who are unconnected and full pay with top teachers’ recs? This is a kid loved by teachers in the toughest most advanced subjects, asked to be TA where 95% of classes don’t have a student TA, who has 3.9 GPA where no one gets a 4.0. Otherwise unconnected, no sport, not URM, nothing special ECs (head of robotics club, part-time job type stuff). We know it won’t be Ivies, Stanford, MIT, but where? School sends at least 20% to top 10 schools each year, 50% to top 25; we imagine they are mostly legacy. [/quote]

Sounds very much like my kid. We have a pretty strong legacy connection to an Ivy+ (parent attended, consistent donor in the $1k range, consistently involved but not at a major board level) and a weak legacy connection at another Ivy+ (one parent went undergrad, other parent went for grad, very small donations and minimal involvement) but not sure if those are the right fit so struggling between using those connections vs. a potential significant drop in the level of the school he attends. We want to play the ED game right.

In our generation he would have been a perfect fit for anywhere below HYPS. Now not so sure. Good but not TT private - a lot of the kids from the school who get into Ivy+ are hooked.[/quote]

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