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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t get into the colleges I wanted to go to and that everyone around me thought I would get in — many students have this experience.

Did I sue?  No.  I went to my safety school, studied hard, and later transferred to my top-choice school.

There are no guarantees.  It is a subjective process and luck plays a big role.[/quote]

You were not wronged in the process. That is the point of the case. Not knows what your academic profile looks like[/quote]

How do you know it’s a perfect process? If you really want to accuse the school, you can always find out something improper.   The majority of people are reasonable so they won’t do that. From any aspect the girl did not have a profile that guaranteed his admission. She didn’t have any impressive national level awards for academics (math, writing, debating, Intel, etc.) or ECs. I have heard enough stories about students winning national awards not getting into the Ivies they wanted to attend.[/quote]

She appears to hold Sidwell’s school record for the 100 meter dash.
https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/SchoolRecords.aspx?SchoolID=14932

She also ran track at Penn. I would call that an impressive EC.

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athletic preferences at ivy league schools are such a scam. i love that brown university has the same number of varsity athletes as the university of michigan. to get on a team at michigan -- say, swimming, well, you are probably going to the olympics. brown? not so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bribery-scandal-points-to-the-athletic-factor-a-major-force-in-college-admissions/2019/06/12/b2fc39dc-7e3a-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.47fe1be14688[/quote]

Not the point. [b]She was DC state champ who continues to hold a sidwell school record five years after she left, not a kid who pretended to be on a crew team on instagram. She was qualified candidate with much to offer. [/b][/quote]

She may have had an impressive track record, but it doesn't mean she was at the level where they were interested in recruiting her. Just being very good at a sport doesn't do you any good if you don't reach recruitment level. It seems to me she was right at the cusp of that level. [/quote]

Not sure that the schools she applied to care about track. [/quote]

Sure they do, but not every good athlete will get recruited by every school.  A lot will depend on whether the team needs more sprinters, say, or throwers, or hurdlers -- whatever that particular student's specialty is.  Additionally, college coaches will check with HS coaches to find out whether the student is coachable and shows promise of improving, and, generally, speaking whether s/he is a pain in the butt. My understanding is that this student would not have been recommended by the SFS coach in this regard.  In any case, it appears that some colleges expressed interest in recruiting the student (e.g., Brown), but she didn't apply to those schools.  And even if she had applied to those schools, there's nothing to say that the expression of interest would have resulted in an offer by the coach to support her application.   [/quote]

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