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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me schools help difficult families and kids get into elite schools all the time, every year. In fact it is part of their attraction.  So I can see why the family is crying foul. What's different about this family, v a hypothetical entitled but not overachieving white child from an American family?[/quote]

If you read all the way back to the original, amended complaint, they claim the same thing happened to their older daughter who only got accepted to Georgetown and Michigan because Sidwell was "not involved" in those applications. The whole thing makes no sense - they are lacking an understanding of the process (one of their claims is that Sidwell neglected to send an SAT II score to McGill when those scores don't even come from the school, but from the College Board - to which they did not submit a request) and their use of the legal system and the OHR to resolve (and escalate) conflict.

Also, she submitted her application to Spelman after the deadline and subsequently withdrew it - she was not rejected there. The other schools to which she applied were Cornell, Columbia, MIT, Harvard, Yale, McGill, UVA (where she was waitlisted), Penn, Brown, Princeton, Duke, Hopkins and CalTech.
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Wow!  14 schools?  I thought seniors apply to about 8 schools.  Am I missing something?[/quote]

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