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[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]

Huh?  My kid will attend his first choice T20 school.  [/quote]

You are hooked then in some way. You don’t want to admit it but you probably used your connections. That is hooked. [/quote]

Legacy is not as huge a hook anymore. And most Big-3 parents, while wealthy, are not in a position to donate $20M to their alma mater. The hook coming from a Big-3 is the college counseling office, which has close relationships with admissions officers at the nationally ranked colleges and universities. Sometimes, college counselors at B-3s have even come from these admissions offices. And the one-on-one attention that Big-3 students receive means that their college counselors can ring up an admissions office and discuss individual applicants. Public school college counseling offices simply do not have the time to get to know every kid in the junior and senior classes who are applying to colleges. And private college counselors can be helpful, but they are not in the same category as the college counselors at Big-3 schools. The incentive for admissions officers to get to know private college counselors is simply not as great as getting to know the college counselors at the Big-3.[/quote]

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