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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS 4 accepted ED at Harvard, 6 at Penn.[/quote]
Ironically, because of all the GDS puffery, I am skeptical of this claim. Probably not a lie,but you never know. [/quote]

It's not puffery, and it seems that GDS got more Harvard acceptances than Sidwell.  Huge.[/quote]

Why is this "huge"?  I think it's great for GDS kids who got in, but GDS is now, and always has been, one of the top schools in the area for college admissions. So is Sidwell, and several others.  It's not a competition.  [/quote]

+1[/quote]

Unfortunately, it certainly is a bit of a competition for the students.  The fallacy is the belief that the schools have much to do with it. Give me a few kids with comparable course work, grades, standardized test scores, and ECs from Burke, St. Andrew's, Stone Ridge, Landon, etc., and I would expect similar results.  The days of reserving x slots for students from a given school seem to be largely a think of the past.    [/quote]

Actually I think for private schools, the counseling office has a TON to do with it. GDS obviously has a great relationship with Harvard. Just as for admissions to high school (I.e some schools are "feeder" schools) the same is true for colleges. Harvard knows what it will be getting when it admits a GDS kid probably because the college counsellors advise them.[/quote]

As other posters have suggested, a lot has to do with where the top students apply.  The admissions reps are very familiar with these schools and can basically at this point eyeball if they are getting the top students from a given school.  If the top students from a school apply to Stanford, Harvard will probably not accept many of what it considers the next tier.  If the top students apply to Yale, same thing.  If the top students apply to Harvard, that school will have more Harvard acceptances and less at Yale, Stanford, Princeton (accepting for the sake of argument that those are currently the four most selective schools).  For students at a very high level, with blockbuster boards and grades and teacher recs that jump off the page at you, it really is about those students and it's not that "Harvard loves School X" so much (other than the accurate fact that Harvard is quite familiar with top independent schools and can see the proven track record of success at college of their graduates -- but that's true for a broad category of independent schools).

Bottom line: it is, in the end, really mostly about (1) superb students who excel in their environment; (2) where the top students in a school in a year choose to apply early; and (3) understanding that there is still a margin of error where a student who met the profile for admission from Private School X "in any other year" somehow did not get in.[/quote]

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