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[quote=Anonymous]Forgot to mention that it's naive to assume that your kid won't be competing against kids with legacy status within a public HS, especially at affluent suburban schools, Wilson, and magnets with competitive admissions.

And, yes,  Sam, schools will turn down the 4th (or xth -- maybe it's 6th, I don't know) fully-qualified GDS students.  The schools with the most selective admissions routinely turn down hundreds of highly-qualified students.  They want student bodies that are diverse/balanced in so many ways (regionally, economically, public vs. private) and wrt athletes, at a certain point (earlier in Ivies than in football-oriented school), each coach has met his/her quota.  Basically, with a nationwide pool there's an overabundance of well-qualified kids and highly-coveted schools have to say "no" not just to some of them but to MOST of them who apply.  Which is why you have various sorts of quotas -- admission is a scarce commodity which needs to be rationed in order to serve a variety of different goals.  
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