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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of wishful thinking on this thread. Or else, the private school in question is just a run of the mill place that charges tuition and isn’t special enough to be well known to all the AOs of the T20.

My kid graduated since covid from the latter type school with a 3.8, 1550 and no national accolades. He was, however, a favorite of his teachers and a true intellectual.  He easily nabbed a spot at his dream school (t15, non ivy). But his friends *with even lower gpas* from the same graduating class  DO currently attend Ivies inc Yale, Columbia and Brown, Chicago, Northwestern and JHU.

The 3 kids in the class i know with the highest gpa are at Harvard and Stanford unhooked. And Princeton, but hooked.

All “privates” =/=[/quote]

I assume at your very "special" private, some kids are legacies.  Op's hypothetical was about two unhooked kids.

Also, "easily nabbed?"  Please, for all you know, your kid barely made it through the Committee, or wouldn't have made it without the more favorable acceptance rate of ED.

If you find this post obnoxious, you now know how the rest of the world view you.[/quote]

You say obnoxious, I say stating facts. None of the ~10 kids I described are undergrad legacies at the schools where they landed. None are athletes, none are URM or development cases

You are right though that I have no idea how the admissions meeting went when my kid was admitted. All I know is it’s their dream school and they graduated with a 3.85 or so.  Not a 4.8 or 4.0 uw[/quote]

I think Sidwell has been reading really well with admissions officers in recent years (their Instagram was the best of the DMV last year by far) and this is true if they have been routinely be getting in unhoooked 3.85 kids into the Ivies and Ivy adjacent school. I have kids at STA and NCS and it isn't happening at either of those schools. You basically have to be top 20% to have any shot at all and this is a 3.9 at NCS (and numeric equivalent at STA). I don't know anything about GDS. [/quote]

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