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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
I've been away from my computer for the past several hours. 
There's a poster who keeps asking how I know how I know that the senior girls have hooks.  I have friends in the class and my daughter has also told me.  The underclassmen girls know who is going where and why they're going there.  When 4 girls got into Columbia ED, it was all the chatter but by the next afternoon when I drove 5 girls in a carpool. 
The carpool girls were reporting to each other that 3/4 were legacy and 1/4 was a sports recruit.  They know everything.  It's just the crazy reality of 2022 with social media and kids who are WAY over invested in college from a young (9th or 10th grade) age.  YES, it's NUTs.  No, it's NOT HEALTHY.
But the reality it that no-one goes to college in a vacuum when the school has classes of only 70-80 kids and 95% of the class is on social media and all the underclassmen are social media "friends" with all the seniors.  Everyone knows who goes where and generally 
why they're going where they're going. I've also been at social two events over the past several weeks with school parents and heard about the senior placement at each of them.  I'm not even super connected so I know there are kids and parents who know far more than I do.
Plus, the college counseling office is pretty transparent about who has been accepted without any hooks.

It's all pretty much public knowledge.  You don't get one of the two Princeton admits (for example) from NCS without absolutely everyone in the class knowing exactly if you had a hook or not.  There is ZERO way of keeping this on the down low.   
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 I am not at NCS but this seems very likely and realistic to me given how much information people know about each other at smallish privates. It was the same when applying to high schools from a K-8. People know who has connections where and why certain people are accepted in which places, or not. Even more on the college level I would assume.[/quote]

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