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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, normal smart kids are getting into Ivy and T30, even from our public. We're not in a district where families game the system - kids are doing their sports and their ECs and enjoying their high school lives. The Ivy and Stanford kids are great students + interesting kids. [/quote]

Tell this to superstar kids having max scores and national awards that did not get accepted to any ivy league schools but to top stem schools. Ivy schools have a questionable admission process that favors legacies and private school kids. Obviously, there are exceptions but not many.[/quote]

Cornell still takes smart kids from the burbs. And Princeton will take them for STEM. But otherwise, the Ivies generally don't for the unhooked. My personal feeling is that Ivy admission priorities are dumb and are killing their brand. But, whatever. Their choice to conduct admissions as they do.

But strong students still have a shot at MIT, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Stanford, Notre Dame, Rice, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, USC, Chicago, Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Emory and a lot of other very good schools. That's generally where the talent is these days.  [/quote]

100% agree on this. Cornell is a larger ivy, not as prestigious as the rest and very rigorous and indeed, they are accepting more. That reflects in the acceptance rate. The schools you mentioned are amazing schools that are better in most of the cases than ivyes.[/quote]

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