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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still find it hard to believe she was rejected at every school including the HBCU. Something isn't right. Sounds like Sidwell gave terrible recommendations. Glad she is at UPenn now. Also she was a track star at Sidwell and surprised she did not get in anywhere. The whole thing is so fishy.[/quote]

I would agree if she hadn't applied to only the very top schools in the country.  She admits (through the litigation) that she expected to rely on/benefit from affirmative action.  Also, she wasn't rejected everywhere -- The appeals court decision says something about her being rejected or waitlisted or withdrawing applications from all the schools she applied to (but I haven't read the whole thing, so I don't know which schools).

Schools like Sidwell want the students to succeed -- I don't think they want to lie to get kids into schools where they can't succeed.  If they gave her "terrible" recommendations, which I doubt, it is entirely plausible that she deserved it.   [/quote]
Do private schools really write terrible recommendations for their own students?[/quote]

Recs come from the teachers. I don't know how it works at every school. But a school with a strong record of sending students to the Ivies will likely be careful not to abuse the recommendations. Both teachers and Ivy admissions will have years of experience writing, reading and evaluating recommendations and can spot the genuinely enthusiastic from the humdrum. [/quote]

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