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[quote=Anonymous]Having recently been through the college process a one of these TT schools, it's quite clear that the excellent college admissions at my kid's school is not reducible to legacy status, donors, URM etc.

It may be more true for HYP specifically, which have gotten so hard to the point that nowadays it almost seems like you have be both an absolute top student AND a legacy to get in from the top NYC privates.  But even so,  there are many more HYP legacies either not getting in, or encouraged to apply elsewhere, and many of them (and others) end up at great schools where they have no legacy.

The most significant thing about these schools's placement is the percentage of students going to top schools (including the LACs of course).  If you look online it seems that Brearley is probably in a class of its own in this respect both in terms of the percentage going to HYP and to this broader groups of top schools.  It goes beyond even the top half of the class.

That said, it's a self-selective crowd and these schools can be pressure cookers.  So it's not clear that a student who is thriving at a T2 or T3 school should switch or that doing so will have such an important impact on college admissions.  And of course, it easy to get obsessed with college rankings over fit, when the rankings matter far less in life than might be suppose.

Another thing to keep in mind is how early admissions gamesmanship has changed things.  Certain colleges (like U. Chicago) have shown themselves willing to admit larger numbers of NYC students who apply early, and so you have students who are steered to these places and never even find out where else they might have gotten in.

That said, from what I've seen, the less risk averse kids who end up in the regular decision round seem to do great as well.[/quote]

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