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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]depending on what town you're in, the public schools are incredibly excellent… In some ways superior to the local privates.[/quote]

Stop repeatedly pushing publics on posters who ask about privates. [/quote]

There are towns like Lexington whose public high school is a Harvard feeder school.  [/quote]

If you have a top gpa and SAT, you are more likely to be admitted at a less rigorous school. There are too many legacies and children of faculty there for you to gain a spot.  Harvard can only accept so many from one HS. There is no real Harvard “feeder” where the school’s college counselor can convince Harvard to take a bunch of unconnected kids who otherwise wouldn’t have gotten in without assistance. It doesn’t even exist at the boarding schools. [/quote]

It does exist with the top boarding schools.   They aren’t taking the whole class from anywhere but there are always more admitted from these schools than the similar schools [/quote]

No, it doesn’t. I went to a school of the Andover Exeter Hotchkiss SPS Groton Deerfield level. Seriously, nine out of ten HYP admits was a legacy (high donation), recruited athlete, diversity, or genuine savant level intelligence. These applicants would get into HYP from anywhere. The college office had some relations with NESCACs to broker applicants. They could not, under any circumstance, get some unhooked 1550 Caucasian or Asian applicant into Harvard. That didn’t happen beyond the rate it’d happen at Lexington High or Newton.

I love my boarding school and donate. The experience is worth 250k whatever it is now. Going because it can help with Ivies really does a disservice to families and leads to disappointment. [/quote]

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