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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And full pay, highly qualified kids also get waitlisted. There are not many spots, and there are many applicants, so "qualified" kids will not always get in.[/quote]

I'm the PP and I fully agree.  There are way more highly qualified applicants for 9th grade than spots, independent of HHI.

It's just urban myth that 9th grade offers go to the richest, yet less-talented, kids.   Perhaps that's true in preK (?) but not 9th grade.  [/quote]

I’ll offer direct experience from a decade plus working at one of the top terminal 8 private’s that regularly feeds to a full range of DC metro Highs schools: public, private, parochial - including many to the elite private’s and “Big 3.” It is absolutely the case that the elites regularly admit less qualified, full paying applicants over more highly qualified FA applicants. Every year I see it first hand in the families and students I serve - exceptional candidates are put on WLs when strong but less qualified applicants from full pay families are admitted.  I have even benefitted from this with my own children as ours is a full pay family and my children have been admitted with strong but not as stellar profiles from some of their classmates who are waitlisted and the only factor can be FA. Our HOS who manages the outplacement program regularly advises families that if admittance to an elite is a priority that they should do everything possible to avoid applying for FA, except if they represent a stellar candidate with diversity on multiple fronts. This isn’t urban myth, and I won’t even pass judgement other than offer the direct observation - and reflect that it’s the practical side of the private school funding model. [/quote]

Sure, but the point was broader. The comment everyone was responding to was: "and that lesser qualified full pay applicants are admitted over higher qualified FA applicants." This happens. But it also happens that those lesser qualified full pay applicants are also admitted over higher qualified full pay applicants. This is especially true if the latter is coming from public school and doesn't have a private school network working for them behind the scenes as the GDS admit above mentions. Heck, lesser qualified FA applicants are also admitted over full pay applicants sometimes too. Every class is a mix of kids in terms of money and talent, and each one's polar opposite is out there somewhere in the rejected pile. [/quote]

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