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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many of GDS’s Ivy admits are legacy? I’ve heard it’s a lot.[/quote]

Seems to be most.[/quote]

Yes - many if not most are legacies. Not huge high profile giving Jared kushner type $ but they have a parent(s) who graduates of these schools. Same it seems is true at all big 3 - for ivies at least - not UChicago etc.

As a big3 parent, I can tell you parents who are alums of ivies are a dime a dozen. For example, in my DC’s class alone there are 3 other parents in my exact HYP graduating class in college. I don’t know where other parents went to school but I know the ones in my college class so that’s just a sample. I also interview for my Hyp and I interview legacies all the time. Mostly they don’t get in.

So it is a useful barometer to know that these are mostly legacies getting in if you are thinking about applying to one of these high schools and wondering if it enhances your kids chances. If there are 15 ivies out of 130 - no that doesn’t mean your kid has one in ten chance or whatever.

It also doesn’t take anything away from these kids and what they’ve accomplished. These high schools are hard and in many classes As are hard to come by. There is no way I could get through one of them and get the college results I got 30ish years ago. That’s not to say the process is fair or schools should count legacy or whatever else. But just to say, this path is not a walk in the park either. (Nor is getting to a level in athletics where they want to recruit you).

The gds high school student said it here best. There are many great high schools in this area and no one has a magic sauce to get kids into these schools. It looks like GDS had a very strong year - surely others did too. My takeaway from that is that these schools aren’t going to limit to one or two a class if they see a strong pool.

So congrats to these seniors and all others out there who made it through this year. Applying to college these days is not for the faint of heart. The acceptance numbers are a fraction of what they were when I applied. The schools are - rightly in my view - taking way more first gen kids and  also offering  real $ to make it affordable for many. So in a highly educated area like ours, it’s tough. And the numbers are unmanageable making it’ more of a lottery than it should.. So everyone should be proud of what they accomplished and know that this is one step on a very long path.

Also I saw a thread on what undergraduate degrees 1Ls from Harvard have - it’s a very wide range. So that’s just another small reminder of what a long journey this is and that college is much more what you make of it then where you went. Happy graduation.

[/quote] How many if any are not legacies?[/quote]

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