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[quote=Anonymous]Shakespeare is for poor people, too. My grandparents didn’t graduate high school and quoted Milton at length.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had done this. The difference between a Williams and a Kenyon is not worth the money.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy.  Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families

Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.

Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well. [/quote]

i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence.  The results are out of this world.  I understand some of it is $$.  But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.

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So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...[/quote]

As a Spence alum, I can vouch that it is very academically intense. Like, unpleasantly if it's not in your nature to study all the time on top of your other commitments. College and law school was easy after it.[/quote]

oh for god's sake, just tell us how much your mommy and daddy paid to get you into college.  because according to the experts here that's the only reason you got into the school you did.[/quote]

Hahahaha I did something that no one here believes is good for ROI...took a full ride to a lesser regarded liberal arts college, graduated with zero debt, which then got me half tuition at a solid law school, and now I'm shockingly not failing at life--even though I've wasted too much time on this board. My mommy and daddy were not connected, nor wealthy, I was just decently intelligent, a hard worker, and somehow I did ok.[/quote][/quote]

This is basically it. Send kid to Brearley and spend life savings. You will get her into a top college with sufficient name recognition only to see a single tear slowly roll down the left side of her face every time you mention Shakespeare.

Or save the money and be happy with one of these moderately less selective colleges that’s still full of rich connected New Yorkers and that leads to all the same life opportunities. [/quote][/quote]

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