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[quote=Anonymous]Facile parables and ranching metaphors aside, I think the closest analogy is with college exmissions.

DCUM regularly has threads where parents complain that "the college counselor steered my kid away from Harvard but she got in anyway."  Or, "in retrospect I wish I hadn't listened to the school's counselor."  What follows in these threads is lots of speculation, similar to this thread, about whether private school exmissions folks are in the business of deciding which kids from the school get their support for their Harvard applications, and which kids get steered to a 2nd-tier college instead.

My impression is that on those threads there's more of a consensus that the school ODs are involved in some strategizing.  But there's also some pushback about how it's all sour grapes and paranoia.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the same actors from that thread are on this thread.

(FWIW, my kid got into a Big 2 from a K-6, and we haven't done college yet, so it's not paranoia, but I tend to side with the suspicious camp, based on what I've seen in many families at our school.)[/quote]

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