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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that parents make it so much worse by sending the message that life is not worth living if you don't get into an Ivy.  As for Sidwell, the counselors let you apply anywhere you want.  I agree it's not a good idea, and that's why Sidwell's college stats are not as good as they might be.  There is a new college counselor now, but I'm not sure the process has changed much.  In my opinion, Sidwell needs to do a little better or they'll lose status in the Big 3.

This year's Sidwell class is strong, as they usually are, but not stronger than others.  The question at Yale is always whether they'll accept the brainy kids or the legacy kids.  There is some overlap, but not much.[/quote]

What a horrible thing to say.  Are you actually suggesting that the legacy kids are not "brainy"?  Please publicly identify your kids are so that I can post my opinion of their intelligence, or lack there of.[/quote]

There are some private schools that basically limit the number of applicants to certain colleges or tell kids flat out that they will not support an application (NCS is, or used to be this way).  There are other schools that place a limit on the number of applications overall and try to steer the kids to devote some number of applications to realistic goals.  But it's hard for a college counselor to tell some Yale alumna mom that they don't believe that he kid should to apply to Yale.  Remember also that most school college counseling staffs do evaluate applying students on a scale along the lines from "best we've ever seen" to "meh" -- so that effectively is a sorting process for the most selective colleges.[/quote]

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