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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP has a point.  Many people familiar with the Ivies and similar schools look at someone's applying and gaining admission to all of them as a "Stupid Pet Trick," even if they are too polite to say it.   There are such differences among the schools that applying to all of them is not especially rational, unless the goal is just to get into an Ivy and/or show that you can kick ass with admissions departments.   [/quote]

If I was a teen living in NoVa going to TJ, I would definitely apply to numerous schools.  [b]Your peers are virtually all as smart as you and her race puts her at a disadvantage as far as admissions go. [/b] It's not like she was the the standout student in a mediocre school, they're all so talented and smart.

If this child was a white, black or hispanic student the posts would be completely different and that is the sad reality of DCUM.

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I beg to differ. As a white immigrant, I wonder if my child's story will be deemed equally compelling just because we don't look very different from the despised "whitey" :-([/quote]Get over yourself and self-pity.[/quote]

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