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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know where some of you are getting that these kids were "average", much less "below average". I understood that their parents chose to enroll Idris and Seun at Dalton because, at age 5, they were incredibly bright and precocious kids. It is not spelled out, but it appears that their other children did not go to Dalton, probably because they did not show the same exceptional promise early on. Unfortunately, their intelligence at 5 did not translate into academic success at 18. It is unclear how much that had to do with the unique challenges of being black in America, or AA at a mostly white school, and how much came from the fact that a high-stress environment coupled with parental pressure and micromanaging isn't always conducive to intellectual growth. [/quote]

While I agree with most of what you are saying, perhaps the reason Seun's family didn't enroll (or apply) their other children at Dalton was because they didn't want to go through the experience again.

The Brewster parents seemed to have money so I'm baffled why they didn't pay for outside tutoring instead of micromanaging Idris at home.  They were aware that other families were spending tens of thousands of dollars annually in tutoring to give their kid an edge.

I agree that they assumed Idris' URM, ivy legacy, and AA male status applying from Dalton would give him a leg up.   [b]Maybe they believed that he was a special type of AA male because of his background and that admission committees would gobble him up regardless of his GPA/board scores.[/b]  I'm sure Dalton had tools like Naviance or counselors who gave him/them strongly worded warnings that the ivies and highly SLACs were overreaches.  I wonder why they didn't shoot those discussions.

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His college outcomes make me wonder what his GPA was like. The kid must've been a C student. Because I'd think that even a "B" with Dalton, legacy and being an AA male would've at least gotten him waitlisted.[/quote]

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