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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes.  I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

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I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities. [/quote]

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing.  Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings.  Come on.  You need to be honest.  [/quote]

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest. [/quote]

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM
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URM doesn’t count for anything. [/quote]

You're naive.[/quote]

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