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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Richard Montgomery HS had four students get into Harvard alone. All were IB program students and all were minorities.
So statistically, RM is better than any DMV private for the Ivy-inclined, but high school is not just about getting into a brand name school. [/quote]

Until SCOTUS rules that colleges can no longer take race into account for admissions[/quote]

If SCOTUS strikes down affirmative action, the odds seem high that schools will just adopt admissions practices that are even more opaque to get the results they want.[/quote]

Correct.  They only have to avoid a stated diversity target to set up their student bodies however they like.  Only their committee will know. [b]Unlikely that one top school will want to take 15 kids with Asian surnames from one DC area private[/b] or any private for that matter.  They can slice and dice their acceptances however they like.[/quote]

What would be the value to the university of taking 15 kids with Asian surnames from the same high school?[/quote]

That might happen if they were working solely off GPAs or some other quantitative criteria.  BUt they don't.  They can use whatever secret sauce they like to compose their next freshman class.  Trying to beat that from outside is just about impossible without legacies or athletic recruitments.
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