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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell seems to get the most impressive college acceptance results out of any DMV private school.
So if that is very important to you, you are better off sending your kids to Sidwell for HS rather than NCS [/quote]

Just not true.  Not to say they are not fine results but they don’t really stand out against the other great schools.  [/quote]

All they almost all had hooks, 
3 Northwestern admits but all URM. 
most Ivy admits had 2 hooks: legacy plus child of a VIP, URM plus legacy. 
These kids were born on third base--Ivy is in their DNA; it didn't take Sidwell to get them there. [/quote]

Too bad for the unhooked non URMs.  Their ancestors (and parents) should have used their hook (white skin) when non URMs couldn’t.  Then their children would also be legacies at these schools (shrug).[/quote]

Being an urm minority is not a hook. Stop this narrative. If it were such a hook, these groups wouldn’t be underrepresented. Find someone else to blame and start with yourself.[/quote]

It's a hook in that the standards are lower. [/quote]

What standards are lower? The ones you can buy? College admissions teams can see through so called achievement bought by privilege, such as thousands of dollars spent on tutoring beginning in lower school and then of course SAT prep later on. They’re hip to the game and are no longer buying what you’re selling. Throwing around your money to give your kid a leg up in college admissions and then calling it merit is delusional. Admissions departments who care about equity are judging kids on their potential. What have they done with the cards they’ve been dealt? As much as you may not realize it in your privileged bubble, it takes a lot more to be top of the class in an inner city public b/c those kids are having to overcome a lot more environmental obstacles to achieve. It shows character and perseverance. That’s a much better indicator of success than grades inflated by years of tutoring and stacking the deck. [/quote]

And the kids whose folks own a small business, work 90 hours a week at it to pull 60k per year (and make the kids throw in 15 hrs) yet the kids pull 4.0/1600/36, play a sport and and instrument and don’t get in?  Your target audience is the easy one to go after.  What about mine?  [/quote]

Step one would be to close down the business b/c 60k a year earned from 90 hrs a week is less than the minimum wage in dc. But, exaggerated story aside, I’d say dig deeper. Your kid needs to figure out what sets them apart. It’s not all about stats. It’s not a checklist. [/quote]

The wage laws don’t apply to owners.  It’s also not exaggerated.  But I say, you should dig deeper bc the first generation kids I am talking about have hit every mark out before them.  Why can’t others?  [/quote]

My point is the business doesn’t make good financial sense and the business owner in this scenario seems to be throwing good money after bad. There seems to be a flawed mindset in this scenario, shared by both parent and child, that hard work is all that matters. You can work hard at something and still fail. The child in this scenario should learn the phrases minimally acceptable and diminishing returns. Again, having nothing more to go on than stats, is the 1600 SAT worth the sacrifice (as it no doubt comes at the expense of something else, perhaps something that may have made them a more attractive college candidate) or would 1400 have been sufficient?[/quote]

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