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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The two "top" local private schools are sending a lot of kids to Chicago these days when 20 years ago it'd have been one or two every other year.

I do agree that Chicago is deliberately going after the bright affluent kids who don't make cut at Penn or Brown or Yale. [/quote]

FWIW, know a kid who attended school with my DCs and is bright, quirky, super hardworking, and affluent. Wanted his dad's Ivy, but he decided that was too much of a long shot based on the other DCs applying in their class, three who were also legacy, so bet on Chicago. REJECTED ED. I still can't figure out how that happened. This is a kid who would thrive at Caltech, Chicago, MIT, etc. Ended up in RD at his dad's Ivy. Still think Chicago made a mistake. [/quote]
This isn’t surprising at all given they only have so many spots to fill with kids like these. He is male, white(?), not first gen, I am assuming these things based off of your post, but I could be incorrect. People assume that just because their child is an excellent applicant on paper that the school will have no choice but to accept them— people expect this even more if they apply ED. the reality is all of these schools have institutional priorities that will, inevitably, leave them to reject highly qualified applicants who would do more than well at their institution. Sounds like it worked out just fine for the kid you mentioned, so no big deal. [/quote]

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