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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools.  How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT).  the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA[/quote]

I think there are very good results and they are consistent with HM. [b]College counsellors might be recommending to save time and mental energy, ED Cornell or Chicago and be done with college admissions earlier during the year.[/b]

A caveat here is that TT kids getting into less prestigious colleges (think San Diego State) are less likely to post on Instagram but there are always a few students who end up in less popular schools. [/quote]

I have a senior at HM. This is exactly what they do. These kids aren't on DCUM wringing their hands over rankings or perceived prestige . . . they are figuring out their next steps and communicating with the older kids who have had or are having good experiences at schools other than the five or so that are DCUM Approved®.[/quote]

Those are both great and very prestigious places so I don’t follow what you’re saying.  Having been through this at another TT though, I’m a big believer in applying where you want and not gaming things too much at the ED stage just to maximize chances of getting into a top 10 school if it’s not the school you actually want.  But that requires being ok with the possibility your top choices won’t work out.  In my experience though, even those kids still had great choices at RD so there’s want much opportunity cost. [/quote]
NP but -- there has been a recurrent observation on this thread that while HM does remarkably well with those schools (>40 students are going to those two this year?), the rate at which is sends to HYPS is noticeably lower than Brearley etc.  This may or may not be of significance to different families, but the pattern exists and it's not exactly clear what the cause of it is.  If ED to Chicago etc. is what counselors regularly advise everywhere, why do we see these differences?  If it's legacies mainly, why aren't they similarly distributed across all TT schools?  Trinity is supposedly very big on legacies, but again, noticeable difference to Brearley.  Etc.  Some viewpoints on this upthread. 
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Traditionally Brearley has been the training ground for young ambitious ladies from prestigious families. The most connected and wealthy families send their children to Brearley. If I am merely rich and have no connections to a T50 university, I can get my dc into HM fairly easy. Many wealthy and famous people have had to pull favors to get their child into Brearley. [/quote]

This year Spence seems to be on par with Brearley and all the SS schools seem to do better than the COED schools.

Hooks or not, 45% of the class is going to an Ivy.  That doesn't include all the other amazing schools like MIT, Chicago, Williams etc.

I don't think there are going to be too many better day schools than B & S across the country. [/quote]

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