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[quote=Anonymous]I’m about her age, and went to a public, non-magnet high school in the metro NYC area that was in the top 20 nationally on the USNWR list. Our graduating class was around 250 people. We sent three to Yale, one to Princeton, a ton to Columbia, at least one to Duke, and several to U Michigan, U Chicago, and I don’t remember what else because it was over 35 years ago and we just weren’t that obsessed and it was not a thing to do “decision day” or publish lists. I’m sure people went to Cornell and Penn.  Harvard wasn’t  that popular with us -   the number one and two in our class applied early to Yale and Princeton, got in, and were done.

Even more so, we weren’t obsessed with STEM degrees - we majored in English, History, Economics, American Studies, etc. Also, there was no common app, and you had to type those essays out by hand, and the elite schools were big on having very specific essays that you couldn’t really repurpose your main essays. I remember throwing my Georgetown application in the trash because it was that stupid - I vaguely remember it being something like what card were you in a card deck.

Weighted grades weren’t a thing, either, and I remember the big “scandal” was that someone was in the top ten in our class who hadn’t been in any of the hardest classes, and some of us felt that was vaguely “unfair”, but it didn’t seem to affect who went to school where.

Different time, and the colleges knew enough about schools like ours to understand who they were looking at. How young or how out of touch are some of you to think that what happens now is “normal” or was always like this?[/quote]

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