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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not all doom and gloom. Many kids get into excellent schools from private. 
You can’t just look at top ivy results. [b]I bet more than a few kids got into Cornell for example [/b][/quote]

No, not unconnected kids.  At my kid's Big3 there was one Ivy admit (of any kind) last year for an unconnected kid.

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Can you name the school?  I can say that wasn’t the case at STA.[/quote]

You're not playing the game right.  You have to look at all the people whose kids did better than yours in the admissions game (by whatever standards you measure that) and then make up some category of hook that applies to them and not your kid.

You can find a hook for everyone!  It will make you feel better that your kid ended up at a SLAC or state flagship.  [/quote]

Ha, very funny.

No, there are 3 hooks:

-URM
-Legacy which at the Big3 generally means VIP legacy (a big donor or famous person who is legacy)
-recruited athlete

NCS had one kid last year admitted to an Ivy of any kind without being one (or generally more than 1) of these.

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So if the stats I am finding online are correct, then NCS has about 45 white or Asian girls in a class.  Let’s imagine that 5 of them have parents who went to an Ivy or will be recruited.

That means that 2.5% of the kids in that category got into Ivies.  That is an incredibly high number.  Way higher than public school kids.  If you think that attending NCS isn’t a hook you are seriously delusional.

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However, way, way more than 5 parents went to an Ivy in any NCS class. Many kids have both parents having gone to an Ivy and often different Ivies. [/quote]

So, how many "unhooked" kids are there in a class?  [/quote]

NCS
Class of 80?
Depends on the year but I'd say:
-Less than 5 athletes (this year there are 4 recruits).  It is not an athletic school.
-Maybe 20 URM (some classes in younger years are more like 30-35)
-I'd say 50 have a parent (considering there are 2 parents per kid) who is an Ivy grad.  This number is REALLY high.  Maybe 2-3 per class are Ivy legacy at the VIP level (parent committee members at the Ivy, former faculty, million dollar donor, etc).  
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