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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huge waste of money for us.  Totally on us.  Thought that DD would take advantage of the opportunity.  Her grades were just above a 3.0 and not in line with her stellar test scores.  We thought that these scores might have been enough for a couple of reach colleges - given that the so so grades were from NCS and not a Podunk public- but she wasn't accepted anywhere that's considered competitive at all.  Hope it works out for you![/quote]

I think the problem with NCS and a lot of top public and privates is legacy kids. Those kids will have an edge. [/quote]

While legacy kids have an edge, I don't think it has the same displacement factor as it does at the prep school level.  I.e., if Harvard is accepting a legacy case from NCS, they still have 1599 other places in the class, so can accept someone from NCS who's not legacy pretty easily (and go beyond that - while Harvard has plenty of graduates, most of their kids aren't going to be competitive applicants, which is where it matters - you still need the credentials, it's just that you float to the top among other qualified applicants).  Compare that to NCS (or any other school, Sidwell, etc.) that accepts only 10 kids for 7th grade or 20 kids for high school.  A lot smaller number and less flexibility.[/quote]

I graduated from ncs and it seemed like often the kids who got into HYP were either legacies and minorities. Now, they were usually highly qualified legacies and minorites (except for the occasional very wealthy legacy kid who wasn't that impressive). But all else equal, the  qualified legacies and minorities are going to edge the others out.[/quote]

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