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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top 20% of the class are still unlikely to get into HYPS without any other hooks. DC is one of the top students in her grade but I am under no illusion that going for HYP would be a colossal waste of energy. We are still a few years away from college applications but it is already obvious final outcomes are not determined by meritocracy. [/quote]

Can you say more as to why you feel like it's not meritocratic?[/quote]

Here are recommendations from the recent Yale report. Most parents helping their unhooked kids with college application decision making will agree with these conclusions:

“Reform undergraduate admissions. Building greater trust in this area must begin with a thoughtful, accurate, and robust accounting of how undergraduate admissions actually works. The university also bears an obligation to articulate a clear set of goals and priorities in admissions, and to conduct the process with as much fairness and respect for the aspirations of young people as it can muster. We recommend that the university embrace a standard of candor: It should only use criteria for admission that it is willing to describe publicly and defend openly. The top priority in admissions decisions should be academic achievement.

The current system of preferences for certain groups of applicants (including varsity athletes, legacies, and children of faculty, staff, and donors) distorts the admissions process by reducing the number of slots available to high-achieving applicants who do not fit into one of the favored categories. We recommend that Yale reduce preferences for special classes of applicants.”

https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2026-04/Report-of-the-Committee-on-Trust-in-Higher-Education.pdf
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