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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not all doom and gloom. Many kids get into excellent schools from private. 
You can’t just look at top ivy results. [b]I bet more than a few kids got into Cornell for example [/b][/quote]

No, not unconnected kids.  At my kid's Big3 there was one Ivy admit (of any kind) last year for an unconnected kid.

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Can you name the school?  I can say that wasn’t the case at STA.[/quote]

You're not playing the game right.  You have to look at all the people whose kids did better than yours in the admissions game (by whatever standards you measure that) and then make up some category of hook that applies to them and not your kid.

You can find a hook for everyone!  It will make you feel better that your kid ended up at a SLAC or state flagship.  [/quote]

Ha, very funny.

No, there are 3 hooks:

-URM
-Legacy which at the Big3 generally means VIP legacy (a big donor or famous person who is legacy)
-recruited athlete

NCS had one kid last year admitted to an Ivy of any kind without being one (or generally more than 1) of these.

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So if the stats I am finding online are correct, then NCS has about 45 white or Asian girls in a class.  Let’s imagine that 5 of them have parents who went to an Ivy or will be recruited.

That means that 2.5% of the kids in that category got into Ivies.  That is an incredibly high number.  Way higher than public school kids.  If you think that attending NCS isn’t a hook you are seriously delusional.

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So, doing my advanced math, you are basically saying that 1/45 = 2.2% (which is close to 2.5%) got into an Ivy that was unhooked, which is a great result?

Comparing to public school is really apples-to-oranges.  You had to score high on the SSAT and have high grades just to get into NCS to begin, while a public school might have 300-500 kids per class where you just need to live in-boundary or go to a feeder school in-boundary.  If you compare NCS to just the top 10% of JR (roughly 50 kids) you may actually not think 2.5% is a great result.

True apples-to-apples is to compare NCS to magnet schools like TJ or Blair Magnet program...even Walls.  Your 1/45 will actually look terrible.[/quote]

Lots of Ivy admits at NCs and You’re missing the point those kids would not have gotten in as athletes if they were at a public school. The fact that they’re at a big 3 gives them added attention and the Ivies like that. That’s what you’re missing they may not have gotten in from public. Coming from a big three in this area and being a good athlete means you’re a scholar athlete and it puts you in a different level. You’re very obtuse if you don’t get that. Besides percentage wise a lot of kids went to Ivy’s last year from NCS, Sidwell, GDS, and St. Albans. Much higher percentage than from public so hands down kids at the big three are going to more ivies and whether they’re hooked or not means part of that hook means attending a big three. There’s a lot of clout in that because they know the quality of work these kids are doing plus the sports requirements and then outside sports teams. So that being a student plus a great athlete requires a lot had a big three in colleges like that clearly. That’s why you had four kids from NCS get into Columbia last year alone. You can keep saying they’re hooked to make yourself feel better but part of the hook is that they’re smart and attending a rigorous school with demanding schedule. [/quote]

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