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The innocents on this forum who thought that racial profiling of the SFS admits to Yale would end up in a different place are completely naïve.  It is always about race or some other hidden advantage and never about the relative merits of the candidates.  If you want a strategy that will help your kids get into places like Yale then you should encourage them to get exceptional grades, become leaders in their activities, prepare well for standardized tests, be good people, and represent themselves fairly and authentically in the application process.  This formula is no guarantee of success at any one college, of course.[/quote]

This is a very good post. It also captures some of what I feel about choosing a secondary school based on its college admissions list. If a kid is like the kid described above - top grades, top test scores, leadership in extracurriculars - then he or she will be a viable admissions candidate regardless of where they went to high school. And if they don't meet those criteria, then they're not getting into HYPSM, again regardless of their high school.

People need to focus on fit in picking secondary school - and if they're determined their kid is going to go to Yale, then they need to pick the school where it's most likely their kid will achieve top grades and leadership positions.[/quote]

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