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Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories. [/quote]

Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.[/quote]

Lol.  What year are you posting from?  It's not 35% of the class.  And HYPS are often one each, per school.  
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Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school.  I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.  [/quote]

what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year.  It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year. 
I don't think it's GDS.  They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell?  Again, I don't think so.

I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.  [/quote]

I just looked at an incomplete Sidwell list from 2020:

23 to Ivys
38 to top national universities like Stanford/CMU/Emory/USC
29 to tops SLACs (NESCAC/Pomona type schools)
17 to top publics (Michigan/UCLA/UT/W&M/Cal/UVA)

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