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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The view of all these private schools filled with hooked kids is flawed.  Some rich families, FGLI, POC, definitely there.  But our experience leads us to believe that the number is much lower that the inflated percentage mentioned.

Looking at Spence for this year - 54 girls have public posts - my guess is that's around 85% of the class give or take.
The list is below.  Taking out the HYP or bust mentality (which is silly) - it appears to me that 48/54 girls are going to a pretty decent school.

Penn: 6
Chicago: 5
Cornell: 5
Harvard: 4
Princeton: 4
Michigan: 4
Brown: 2
Columbia: 2
Williams: 2
WashU: 2
Berkeley: 2
Yale: 1
Dartmouth: 1
Northwestern: 1
Vanderbilt: 1
Emory: 1
Rice: 1
Tufts: 1
Wellesley: 1
Swarthmore: 1
Barnard: 1
Colgate: 1
Wake Forest: 1
Vassar: 1
Northeastern: 1
Chapman: 1
Kenyon: 1

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Assuming you are identifying the bottom six as not "pretty decent." Wake, Colgate and Vassar are all excellent schools, particularly assuming those are kids well into the bottom half of their high school class. I hate Northeastern and how it is obsessive about gaming the system but for certain programs it is excellent and kids turn down elite options to go there. Chapman is underrated on the east coast. And Kenyon is fine. Stop being such a snob.[/quote] I totally agree with you point and i should have pointed that out.  I implied this with the HYP or bust comment but I should have been more specific.  I can't speak to Kenyon or Chapman but Colgate and Vassar are good schools - maybe not T30 or whatever metric people use here.  What I am saying is that the data shows matriculations are really good.  If NE/WF are the "worst" schools a student gets into - that is a very impressive list.[/quote]

Thank you for clarifying. Sorry for being so harsh - my default based on most DCUM posters is that they are jerks so appreciate that you are not.[/quote]   no, totally understandable on your part.  I have never gotten the extreme pressure some parents put on Ivy or bust - it's not healthy.  Lots of excellent schools - but my point is that Spence (and many other TT schools) have excellent outcomes if willing to look at a broader set of schools.

my spouse has done very well going to what many here would consider a so so school  (a T50 school according to US News)![/quote]

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