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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At HM the incredible exmissions are legacies, super rich kids (HHI over a 10 million a year or major family money), off the chart smart kids (you might think this is your kid, but it probably isn't), athletes, FGLI and minorities. Which is a huge portion of the class. But there are plenty of kids who are none of these and they fade into the woodwork at HM.[/quote]

I was a non-minority non-athletic non-legacy faculty kid at a middling Midwestern private school and would have absolutely been in this category at HM; at my school I was the smart kid and took advantage of some neat resume-bolstering opportunities and ended up getting into both of the Ivies I applied to.

I can't necessarily promise that would happen at a lower-ranked school in NYC because geographic competition is a concern too, and even at Fieldston you're competing with the billionaire / celebrity kids who weren't smart enough to get into Riverdale, but if we stipulate that private school can make a difference in the options for a given kid, then unless your kid is a rock star who was going to get in everywhere anyway, a lower-ranked school will probably do at least as good a job of packaging them as HM/Trinity/Dalton/Brearley would.[/quote]

You weren’t an average Joe. You were a faculty brat. They are given priority in admissions at these schools to keep their parents (the college office’s co-workers) happy. [/quote]

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