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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who the hell care what a bunch of Koreans think?  [b]They are not going to be the connections you child needs or wants to get into a great college[/b] or law or med school or get a job after college.  One of the things you send your child to Sidwell or STA for us the connections and network they will have available to them for the rest of their lives.[/quote]

I am curious about how "private school connections" help a child get into a great college.[/quote]

Conbections are important for many things, but not as much gor colleges. For 99 percent of private school kids, they don't. For some kids your parents will be a connection that matters, especially if your connection happens to be that your dad is at the top of the USG - but that would work for the Obama kids if he had put them in public school. And it can help if you can get a nationally-recognized person in the arts or sciences to write an actual RECOMMENDATION for you. We think that's a key reason DC got into a coveted ivy. But here's the thing: DC didn't earn this recommendation through school, it was an EC outside of school, also DC earned it, DC didn't get the recommendation because we sucked up to this person. And here's another thing: colleges have so many extremely qualified applicants these days, 30,000 applicants to some colleges, that they're not going to take your kid because you sucked up to a Supreme Court Justice or tech gazillionaire who happens to be a parent at your kid's school. And the SC justice and tech gazillionaire both know better than to use their pull on some random person's kid, even if the 2nd PP doesn't understand this.[/quote]

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