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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah that list is interesting - with the exception of NYU there doesn't seem to be any huge advantage to HW. Really shocked that 26 applications to UNC netted 0 acceptances - what's going on there?? Or Stanford, wouldn't you think they'd have more than 7 acceptances out of 86 applications? Same with UVA, Princeton, MIT, Harvard - these numbers don't look out of line with what you'd expect from any HS.

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current HW parent here and also parent of a graduate. I should continue reading but I stopped here to say a couple of things.  Different high schools are different feeders for different colleges.  HW has been a feeder to UChicago, Michigan, NYU, WUSTL, and lately to Penn.

Historically, HW doesn't feed to Princeton, UNC, or Pomona.  UVA is brutal; we explored it in depth with our oldest kid's dean (college counselor) because we have Virginia ties, but the dean was pretty clear that DC was not going to get in (DC applied anyways, but was accepted ED somewhere else so pulled the UVA application). UVA has that mandate to take VA kids, and they do (or used to) consider OOS kids of UVA parents as in-state (legacy), so that combo basically wipes out an OOS kid with no UVA parent or no athletic hook.

HW kids apply to Michigan because of California politics.  The University of California schools have a mandate to accept the top 10% of *public* CA high school seniors. So if your kid goes to a CA private, it's a very difficult to get into the UCs.

Want to say a few other things:

1) There are tons of kids there that are not rich.  Their financial aid program is amazing (it's almost unbelievable; can't say enough about it).

2) While there are kids who have celebrity parents there, they are a minority; they just shine bright.

3) What I do think HW kids have in abundance is legacy parents.  DH and I do not have legacy anywhere and it is tricky--as most of you know, your DCs are competing for colleges against their own high school class.  Since legacy is a hook in an ED or SCEA round, an unhooked kid has to be strategic about what schools to apply for, if applying ED or SCEA.[/quote]

This is helpful info. HW seems like a wonderful school. The campus looks amazing.
UVA may have a regional bias.

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If UVA has any kind of "regional bias" when it comes to OOS admissions, it would be to favor applicants from further away states.[/quote]

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