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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stow the sour grapes, people--it is about grades and scores, or a hook such as legacy status or varsity athletic potential at the collegiate level.  It is just ludicrous to assume there are lots of students dissuaded from applying to Harvard who otherwise would have gotten in.  We don't know what we think we "know" about college admissions as parents, because the landscape has changed so much since our time.[/quote]

17:26 here. I was writing from experience as an alumna interviewer for one of the top schools. For me it's not sour grapes, as my children have not gone through the college-application process and I myself got into all the colleges to which applied (and that was a different world then, as we know). [/quote]

NP here. 17:26 - If your children haven't gone through the college application process then you really aren't in a position have a clear perspective and can only hypothesize. You only have experience with the interviewing aspect of the school you attended and know NOTHING about how the school represents the other 80% at other colleges. FWIW my father was an alumni interviewer for a top Ivy in DC, and while he found it rewarding, he had little say in the whole process or with the schools where the students attended.

Bottom line, any opinion you might think you have about how schools today handle the "other 80%" is limited at best. I might add, that every school and counselor is different, so it's just not right to make such a negative sweeping statement. [/quote]

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