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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been an interviewer for Harvard for a while and have a lot of data on numbers of admittances, but only a little info on numbers of applicants.  STA, Sidwell, NCS are probably the top privates for raw #'sof kids admitted.  The admitted kids include legacies that any college would kill to have, unconnected smart kids and , yes, legacies for whom the legacy thing made a difference.

In raw numbers, TJ in VA is always the top, but they also send huge #'s of applicants and have a large student body.  In raw #'s, Whitman in Montgomery County and Blair Magnet also do as well as the privates, but I don't know how many apply vs the privates.

The previous posters are correct when they say you have to be at the top of the class no matter where you are. Harvard just reaches a bit deeper into the class at really competitive schools. Harvard is 2/3 kids from publics.  Also, it's not for everyone.  Great educations can be had in less fraught atmospheres.  Harvard does have lots of resources that a really driven kid can find useful.[/quote]

Excellent and common sense post.  Thank you for the balanced analysis.  [/quote]

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