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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand that College forum.  Parents act like the Ivy acceptance rate is 0.00001% and that DC needs a Nobel Prize to be competitive.  In fact, the Harvard acceptance rate is 5% (1 in 20 is getting in).  Difficult, but hardly impossible.[/quote]

You're right, you don't understand. It's a lot lower than 5% for these elite schools, closer to 3%, and once you take into account pulling in legacies, athletes, first generation, and underrepresented minorities, the chances go down to nearly non-existent.

Keep telling yourself it's simply "difficult."[/quote]

At St. Ann's 48% will go to an Ivy, at Colligiate in Manhattan, 50+% will go to an Ivy.
I'll keep telling myself it's [sic] simply "difficult," while you keep making excuses for mediocrity.[/quote]

Does you child attend one of these schools? [/quote]

My DC is attending a school with similar stats and would be a legacy.  (We're not super rich, just super smart.)  Nevertheless, I recognize that getting in will still be difficult.

But even at Fairfax HS, 2 kids get into Princeton or MIT EVERY year.  Difficult, but hardly impossible ... stop excusing mediocrity.[/quote]

Except you are making up both your sets of stats.  No school in the DMV has 50%+ getting into the Ivy schools.

At best, 50% are getting into top 20 if you include top 20 SLACs (which is debatable).  Remove the SLACs and only like 30% and that’s top 20…not Ivy.

What’s also funny, is often no kids at STA and at best one kid at Sidwell gets into MIT (and that’s like every other year) which doesn’t count legacy.

So…either name the school your kid goes to or shut the f**k up because you are making up a ton of shit and making yourself look stupid.
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DC doesn't go to school in DMV and [b]will apply to HYP[/b] as a legacy to one. That's about as much as I would disclose.  Sorry about your own predicament, better luck next time.[/quote]

A bit early to gloat, "supersmart" person?[/quote]

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