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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand that College forum.  Parents act like the Ivy acceptance rate is 0.00001% and that DC needs a Nobel Prize to be competitive.  In fact, the Harvard acceptance rate is 5% (1 in 20 is getting in).  Difficult, but hardly impossible.[/quote]

You're right, you don't understand. It's a lot lower than 5% for these elite schools, closer to 3%, and once you take into account pulling in legacies, athletes, first generation, and underrepresented minorities, the chances go down to nearly non-existent.

Keep telling yourself it's simply "difficult."[/quote]

At St. Ann's 48% will go to an Ivy, at Colligiate in Manhattan, 50+% will go to an Ivy.
I'll keep telling myself it's [sic] simply "difficult," while you keep making excuses for mediocrity.[/quote]

Does you child attend one of these schools? [/quote]

My DC is attending a school with similar stats and would be a legacy.  (We're not super rich, just super smart.)  Nevertheless, I recognize that getting in will still be difficult.

But even at Fairfax HS, 2 kids get into Princeton or MIT EVERY year.  Difficult, but hardly impossible ... stop excusing mediocrity.[/quote]

Except a lot of the kids who get into Ivy league schools from top public and private schools are recruited athletes. [/quote]

Not pp. I think the pp is just saying it is difficult and not impossible. Reading these forums, it also sounds impossible. In real life, kids get in. The kids we know who are getting in are smart and have parents who are also smart. They aren’t always legacy but if your dad went to Yale and their kid goes to Duke, it isn’t all that surprising. If you are an average smart kid, you have a 1/20 chance. That isn’t exactly lotto. That is a pretty good chance.[/quote]

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