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[quote=Anonymous]Do any of you have a good idea as to how many kids apply to the Ivies from boarding schools that are "feeders"? Me again here... All of them.  As in all of them.  Meaning all of them. Boarding school kids are urged to spread their bets and for the most part can afford the application fee. I had classmates apply to 25 colleges. The old strategy was the law of eighths. From a Deerfield apply to all 8 and have an expectancy of 1.

Consider for a moment that the same 30 or 40 kids from BCC or Whitman all applied to the 8 Ivies, and Stanford and Amherst and Williams. Count it up and kids settled and matriculated by one or a few at those colleges and it fills out that if you are a top student at a public, you're going somewhere good. Maybe not your choice but somewhere good. Also consider that my alma mater Deerfield would never publish these ratios, because people seeing it would react like these posters and I get that. If you saw that the Deefield applied to versus got into Amherst ratio was 75 to 5, would you be discouraged? Probably. If Deerfield just says 5 going to a school that is near impossible to get into, you'd likely be impressed. Again, the numbers can dance when presented differently. Do the Sidwell posters here have te published data on how many kids applied versus got in for these selective colleges? I really doubt Sidwell would furnish that and I would understand why that is. [/quote]

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