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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shady student from a shady family.  I’m sure the school signaled as much through teacher recommendations and perhaps unofficially through college counseling.  Karma.[/quote]

Probably. The teacher's recs were likely very lacking. Because they didn't like the kid. It happens. And it's totally fair. That's the point of recs and this would not be the first kid to get bad recs from teachers in college applications. I'm sure the teachers didn't write "AVOID AT ALL COST" on the recs but there are ways to write recommendations to show a lack of enthusiasm and college admissions officers can read between the lines easily. Mediocre recs from Sidwell says a lot, especially if we're dealing with a kid who'd otherwise [b]be prime Ivy admit target (AA, Nigerian/immigration heritage, elite private school, good grades/scores[/b]). And who knows, maybe the teachers were even downright honest. I remember reading a college admissions handbook from my days applying to college that featured a real life admissions committee at a well-known school and I do remember the committee discussing a student whose teachers' recs admitted that while the student was a strong student, he was also pushy and rude. Of course he got rejected.

Same for Spelman. And Spelman may have also been yield protecting, assuming the girl would get into an Ivy and turn them down. [/quote]

Our college admissions system is broken or at least illogical in so many ways, whether it was Rick Singer gaming admissions through facilitating bribes to coaches and administrators, to the strange system of preferences and what makes a prime applicant.

One of the family's claimed injuries is that the school noted in its recommendation that the parents were from Nigeria, which in their mind could have weakened the daughter's affirmative action/URM boost at elite colleges (this was not the case).  But think about it:  the daughter of two Nigerian immigrants, one of whom is a medical doctor, gets a URM boost and is considered a "prime Ivy admit target."  The daughter of a Bengladeshi immigrant factory worker would get no such affirmative action/URM preference.[/quote]

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