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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, GDS is an elite high school that enrolls lots of kids with connections.  Even if they aren’t legacies, they all know people.  That’s why these kids do so well with college admissions.  The rich get richer.  Not exactly a Man Bites Dog story. [/quote]

Meaning?  Their parents somehow pulled strings to get their kids in?[/quote]

Not quite.  Meaning that their privilege is so pervasive in so many ways, large and small, that [b]them having great success in college admissions is preordained.[/b]  It’s just the way the world works.

Fortunately, in the end it really doesn’t matter that much.  [/quote]

Their parents of these kids are outliers.  They kids are bound to be successful.  
The number one thing parents should be asking themselves if they want to know if their own kid could/will have this success with college admissions at GDS: "Have I pushed the limits of innovative thinking and success myself?"  Sounds like I'm joking but I'm not.  I think you either have these genes or you don't.  [/quote]

There are definitely exceptional parents in the group of Harvard admits and the Princeton admit, people who are at the intellectual forefront of this country. People like that also tend to have favors they can call in for their high achieving children; letters they can get written for them etc. [/quote]

Yes, you and I are arguing the same thing!  These are the kids of intellectual and thought leaders who are at the top of their respective careers in the US.  if that is not you (and you're "just" a pediatrician or DC law partner or whatever) then these kids' college destinations are probably irrelevant to you and your kids--whether or not your kids attend GDS and even get all As when they're there.

It's pretty much always this way at GDS.  Of course we all know about Ketanji Brown Jackson but it's been the case with a number of other Harvard admits in recent years.  One was the child of perhaps the top person world-wide in my particular field. These are not ordinary families (or kids). 
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