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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who mentioned the "weighting." When I referenced the deep relationships with the schools - I did not mean "connections," I meant what the other poster is discussing in that top colleges are well aware that students from a handful of top high schools perform well - and there are there are many students who may not be in the top 5% of their class but are well qualified. This particularly hold true with top schools and strong schools. According to the website Matriculation Stats on average 78.2% of a graduating class from NCS attends a "strong" University/College (the website administrator provides the list of the impressive group) and 57.2% of the class attends a Top" University/Colllege - "Top" including Ivies plus Stanford, Duke, MIT, Williams, Oxford, Cambridge, Cal Tech and several other top Universities - the lowest of rank being NYU. See school lists on this webpage http://matriculationstats.org/college-lists .

My point is that basically all of the "Top" schools are made up of students from the top 5% of their high school class, but actually draw from students in the middle of NCS's class. (I am using NCS because it has the strongest percentages in the DC-area - Sidwell probably is in the same league but don't even privately publish their placement). The reason being that the admissions offices weight the grades from certain schools based on the history of success  and outstanding test scores that students from these high schools. I know specifically about this because My brother's kids who are at an Ivy went to a very well known boarding school and my brother hired an outside college counselor who explained the process, because my brother was concerned about competition within the New England boarding school. My brother specifically asked about St. Albans and NCS - as was told they absolutely were weighted as well. I have no doubt that Sidwell's student's grades are weighted as well. I'm not entirely sure how the weighting works but it is probably school specific.

http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc[/quote]

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