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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge? 
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,  [/quote]

I don’t know any students at my children’s school (Sidwell) who talk about attending a UC. I’m sure there are some, it just hasn’t reached my ears. Generally speaking, I don’t think state schools are popular among Sidwell kids. [/quote]

My son applied from Sidwell a couple of cycles ago.  Denied.  The problem is that a Sidwell GPA will never cut it in a sea of 4.8888888s, and GPA is literally the only thing UCs screen for now.  That, and I think poverty.

Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin "get" the Sidwell situation.  UCs and Texas do not.  So, Ann Arbor is a more reliable admit than UC Santa Barbara, oddly.

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Also, many are looking for something beyond weathly and entitled.

UCs are not highly sought after by Sidwell students. That said, there are 5 c/o ‘24 students going to UCs (1 each to Cal, UCSD, and UCSC). The two students who are going to UCLA are recruited athletes.

Sidwell seems to send a handful of students (including non recruited athletes) to UCs every year. It’s not an impossible admit. [/quote]

And yet Sidwell seniors send in close to 30 applications per year with only a few acceptances to Berkeley/UCLA. [/quote]

Well, I think that’s been explained.  They don’t understand the rigor of these schools, and since they are test blind, are looking for kids with extremely high gpas.[/quote][/quote]

It's not the job of a massive public university to try to understand Sidwell and other private schools.  APs and standardized tests exist for a reason, to provide a way to evaluate kids taking advanced coursework in a consistent way and maybe provide them with college credit.  If Sidwell wants to be a special snowflake--it can send its kids to $$ SLACs like Bates or Oberlin, where they're small enough to care about how an individual private grades.  [/quote]

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