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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your school will significantly harm the chances of its students to get into the elite schools where GPA and stats determine 99% of the admission process.[/quote]

St. Ann's in Brooklyn doesn't have grades.  I knew 3 graduates from there at my HYPS.  Honestly, SAT scores become more important when there are no grades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ann%27s_School_(New_York_City)[/quote]

Yeah, but St. Ann’s probably has the one of the most connected student bodies in the country. Artists and actors who have seriously made it, the VC/PE crowd, and bohemian trust funders send their kids. There’s nothing that compares in DC, except potentially GDS, but it’s a stretch.[/quote]

Saint Ann's has been getting kids into top schools since well before your average VC bro could identify Brooklyn on a map. The school doesn't trade in celebrity as much as it does relationships with top colleges that have been honed over decades. Colleges know what they're going to get with a Saint Ann's kid and they rely heavily on the college counselor's written reports for admissions in lieu of a traditional transcript. [/quote]

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