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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Sidwell application asks where the parents went to college.  This is not typical for private school applications and the feeling is that they ask because the more children of Ivy League grads they take, the more legacies they will have.  And unusual number of Sidwell parents went to ivy league schools.[/quote]
I think you are repeating folklore. When we applied kids to private schools 4-5 years ago, all the schools except one asked for parents' colleges. No idea who asks now. [/quote]

Not that PP, but what is the folklore? It's folklore that Sidwell is the [b]only[/b] school to ask for parents' colleges -- because in reality most schools do now?

I don't see how this makes the counselors look better. First, maybe a lot of schools are asking now, it's not obvious which schools are actually selecting for legacies. More important, it's one thing to take legacy status into consideration in advising college applicants, it's another thing if that's the whole game plan.[/quote]

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