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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m kind of annoyed by all the emphasis on college admission - it makes the high schools take primarily kids who will have the hooks (legacy, athletics) [/quote]

What do you think they should emphasize, summer vacations?!?  These are High school seniors.[/quote]

I think they should emphasize academic and extracurricular achievement. Not just legacy and sports.[/quote]

It’s not a zero sum game, the legacies also need great academics and extracurriculars/sports to get in.  It’s gotten that competitive.[/quote]

Legacies have a 33% chance of admission at Harvard vs 3% for general population. I doubt legacies are 11x more accomplished [/quote]

This maybe true for the legacy population at large but not at places like STA.  There are probably 20 kids in my kid's class who are legacy for Yale.  twenty more for Harvard (some overlap) . And on and on. even more if you count law school, medical school, business school etc. it's absurd.  Only a tiny, tiny handful of these kids will get in.  (And of course, not all will even apply). But the numbers in some classes at these schools are absurd. You can't shake a hand at a parent's event without shaking a double Ivy of some variety.  legacy only goes so far for admissions with this degree of over-saturation. [/quote]

STA has 75 boys in a class. 20 boys with Harvard or Yale legacy in one class is a patently absurd claim[/quote]

Umm, different poster and , no, its not absurd. [b]Actually, its a fact[/b].

This is Washington, after all. The city is a funnel for the whole country drawing the highly educated like a magnet. Heck, I bet not even at STA but just if you walk down any street in Columbia Heights or NOMA and just randomly ask people sitting in a coffee shop where they went to college you will yield a very high percentage of " I went to college in Boston" ( Meaning Harvard ) or Yale or Penn.

Getting a job in DC that brings you to washington isn't easy, after all.

Getting your kid into STA is 10 X harder than that so, yes, a walk around the parent gathering at STA is basically bumping into more Harvard law degrees anywhere outside of maybe SCOTUS[/quote]

You and I have very different understandings of the meaning of 'fact'.

In the last 30 years, there have been 16,000 or so Harvard Law grads and 6,000 or so Yale law grads. Your statement defies belief if you just a simple calculation of x% live in DC (much lower than you think), x% of those are married, x% of those have children, x% of those children are boys, x% of those boys are sent to private school and x% of those are sent to STA. You're not getting, by any stretch of the imagination, a high percentage. The numbers just don't work.

Just think about the statement for a minute and you'll realize how preposterous it is. You're actually saying that two schools make up 20% of the parents at small boys school in Washington DC? I'd like some of what you're smoking.

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