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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?[/quote]

It is more nuanced than that.  The following factor into the college decision:

1.  How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy.  If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year.  JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc.  There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy.  Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds.  These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages.  Not the case at all.  Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out.  Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2.  The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes.  The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low.  They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true.  You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school.  So many boxes get checked.[/quote]

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.
 
Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class.  Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in.  The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in.  Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.[/quote]

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person.  This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc..  Again, only based on what I know.[/quote]

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.[/quote]

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