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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do[/quote]

These are almost all legacy kids.

Harvard- boy  -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl  -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl  --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known

So basically the Ivys are all DOUBLE legacy with parents who are in the national press.  The regular Joes are going to Tulane and NYU. 
The Ivy kids are REALLY IMPRESSIVE but lets not kid ourselves that it's their GDS education that got them into these Ivys. [/quote]

+1000

This is true at every Big 3 and other DC private - NCS/STA, Sidwell, Maret, Potomac, etc.

The legacy kids are getting into the legacy schools. Assuming the kids have the grades - no small feat in and of itself, of course - this is still the biggest factor.[/quote]

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