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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL, you think this is somehow unique to the Big 3?

Parents of PUBLIC SCHOOLS have their kids applying to the Ivies in droves too.  I've interviewed several each year for the past decade and only a small handful over this time seemed remotely qualified IMO.  I don't see you calling public school parents "prestige whores" though.[/quote]

Are you joking?

I went to Sidwell and an Ivy.  I used to interview for the latter and was only assigned kids from public school (due to where I live).  I met a public school kid who had started a nonprofit in rural China at 14, one who had suffered traumatic brain injury from Olympic-level ice hockey (female) and built herself back up, and one who had completed a full college-level math curriculum at Georgetown.  None were admitted (which is why I don't interview anymore - what's the point?)

Every kid I interviewed was MORE than qualified - certainly as much if not more so than my college friends and I.

You're delusional.[/quote]

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