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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, How do you propose to police these qualitative and subjective assessments? When you apply, should the AO bluntly tell you they didn’t admit your kid because you seem like an overbearing jerk? Or that kid seems a bit whiney while playing with blocks? Or that the other kid in the room just seems more articulate than yours? Then will you still cry racism anyway because you think your kid was smarter and better in every way?

TBH the process of admitting kids seems a bit like a beauty pageant in that it seems totally subjective. But I still like holistic admissions schools better than admissions “by the numbers” like in your vision. [/quote]

Darling, I never said “by the numbers” but spell out clearly if a kid is admitted because the school likes the skin color. 
Used to be legal in Harvard, not anymore. Still is legal in schools. Not sure for how long.

I looks like You’re one of the lobotomized parents in this thread.[/quote]

How sad that you can't engage in civilized discourse without insulting others. Personally, if I were an AO, that is why I would reject your application. [/quote]

Agree.  It is not very clever  to say  : “Then will you still cry racism anyway because you think your kid was smarter and better in every way?” [/quote]

Come on, every parent thinks their kid is better in every way. If you get rejected and you have some sort of preconceived notion that the schools are being unfair, I'm not sure how the schools will defend themselves against this accusation.[/quote]

My kid study in a private school and their classmates are very nice kids from nice families. But i know children from several families that are rejected and devastated because of that. They think that their kids are underperforming . But the reality is that their kids are not that different from the admitted kids.

I just get frustrated a bit with the system. There few reputable schools in dc an unlimited demand. There is always the case that the majority of children. Will be excluded. I just believe that for the excluded it would be better to have mire information than less on the criteria so they can know why their kids didn’t pass the bar .

Not suggest changing the admission process but disclose more information.

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