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[quote=Anonymous]I would be mortified to try to game the admissions process at a top college if my child didn't have a decent SAT score.  My DH and I both got into top colleges entirely on our own, and I don't think that the really top colleges would take a kid with a low SAT score just because his/her  parent was an alum.  (When I was in law school, a friend (a Harvard alum) had a younger sister who was applying to Harvard from one of DC's top privates.  She was NOT admitted despite having a good SAT score and generations of legacies.  Harvard did call the parents directly to tell the family the news, rather than having the daughter learn it from a rejection letter.

And I would also be mortified to ask any friends to give my child an internship.  I would be too embarrassed to ask.  I will help my kids to identify and apply to internships (by reading resumes and essays etc), but will not make calls to contacts.

On the topic of low-income housing in my nice neighborhood, I am OK with it as long as it's done nicely.  (In our neighborhood, MoCo proposed to tear down a neighborhood library to build a low-income high rise, which was not well-received by the community.)[/quote]

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