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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than the president, the vice president, supreme court justices, the speaker of the house/house minority/majority leader/senate minority/majority leader government figures are by and large not famous.  I guess maybe among college educated people who tune into the news we can add Secretary of State, UN Ambassador, and Attorney General to that list.  As far as pundits go, aside from those who host big talk shows, those people aren't really famous either.[/quote]
NP.  Let's turn this around a little bit -- Who would you and other posters consider truly and legitimately famous?  Sure, I'll give you A-List celebs like Clooney or Pitt or Aniston.  I'll also give you top-tier business & billionaire tech folk like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk.  But outside 3-4 dozen people from those obvious groups spread around the entire country, who are you going to call famous?  By your rarified standard, there aren't many people who make the cut.[/quote]

[b]A better question, given the original post, is who is sufficiently influential to sway the admissions process[/b][i].[/quote]

And that would likely be someone, with or without name recognition, but with a net worth of over $250 million.  So I imagine that any person among the world's highest-paid hedge fund managers, traders, Silicon Valley titans, most highly-compensated Fortune 500 executives.  I imagine that a private school might make admissions accommodations for these monetary celebrities.[/quote]

Holy shit, you could not be more wrong.

This isn't Stanford we're talking about.   It doesn't take $250 million to move the dial on the admission committee's thinking.

Look at it this way:  you have two equal applicants.  Two white female 8th graders with 92% SSAT scores, club travel soccer, 3.7 GPA coming from Deal/Lowell/some Arlington MS.  One plays piano, the other plays violin.   Both are as articulate and poised as an 8th grade girl can be in her face-to-face interview with the Maret/Sidwell/NCS admissions office.

One girl has a father who is a partner at Biglaw and a mom who used to be in marketing but is now a Volunteer.   One girl's father is the Secretary of the Treasury.  He actually earns LESS than Biglaw dad.  Or, her mother is Christiane Amanpour

Is i[i]t really [/i]your position that both children have a completely equal chance at admission?    You'd be wrong.

And, let me say it again with feeling:  it doesn't matter who "America" thinks is famous for the purposes of OP's question.   That's irrelevant.     Worldly world capital dork can't seem to get that straight.[/quote]

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