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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are.  But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is. [/quote]

DP. What is a hook, really? Is it only a legacy or a recruited athlete? [b]Can it also be a NMSF, or a theater or science nerd who won a competitive regional or national award? Can it be someone who has founded a club related to their intended major, or has extensive internship/work experience, or published research?[/b] By that definition, nearly every ED admit at T15 universities is “hooked,” so why are you upset that Sidwell’s students excel in this area?[/quote]

no, these are not hooks. those are strong ECs [/quote]

No, it’s a hook depending on the school.

Being in the top 1% is also a hook. There are many public school students to which that applies.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html

“Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent.

A large new study, released Monday, shows that it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average or took harder classes. They tended to have higher SAT scores and finely honed résumés, and applied at a higher rate — but they were overrepresented even after accounting for those things. For applicants with the same SAT or ACT score, children from families in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, and those from the top 0.1 percent were more than twice as likely to get in.”[/quote]

ECs can get very expensive.[/quote]

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