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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] It's ranked in the top 30 because it's so selective, and it's so selective because of where it is, a [destination] for NE prep school students.[/quote]

and DMV students whose parents are from New England and cannot stomach the thought of the kids at Tulane, Emory, Wake, or any other location on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line[/quote]

The reality is that even full-pay Black kids with great stats and activities have to apply to all of those schools, or a group of about any six schools at roughly that level, to have a good shot at getting in to two or three.

Kids who need financial aid or have imperfect stats need to apply to 10 or more schools at that level to have a good shot of getting into a school
at that level with enough aid to attend.

So, this isn’t about the Mason Dixon line; this is about parents getting an admissions reality check.

When a lot of us parents applied to college, Harvard had a 20 percent acceptance rate. I think MIT attracted a very specific kind of applicant but had something like a 40 percent acceptance rate. Getting into an Ivy League school was very normal.

Today, admissions has gotten much harder, and the idea of parents sneering at Tufts (or Tulane, or Emory) is absurd.

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