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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I just have now been at a TT school for a number of years and have heard enough stories/been told this by faculty, admin, etc. Literally four hours ago, an acquaintance was complaining about how Horace Mann didn’t support her niece’s application to an Ivy despite the fact she was in the top 5 percent of her class. It’s a known thing at most of these places. If your main goal is Ivy League admission, you have to know it’s a game. All these people on here doing percentage odds. My guess is their kids will go to great schools, but the kids who get the HYP spots are often rich and connected.

(my kid isn’t at Horace Mann)
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It can depend on the school and the college. Sometimes a college counselor can really mess up a relationship with a school and you that school will no longer take its calls. A huge part of being the head of a TT schools is managing the egoes of admissions people at Ivy League schools and keeping up a relationship. They actually will quash the applications of students and not “back” certain kids if they need to reserve a space for a high value family (aka big donors). Some schools are more fair than others.[/quote]

This is fascinating to me.  Assume you work in admissions or in a school college counseling office?  Any other interesting nuggets you can share?[/quote][/quote]
How did the kid or her mom know that she was in the top 5%?  Is this something the school communicates?
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Not PP, but I have a DS who's about to graduate from HM. They share that information with the families during the college application process. I have heard of some kids being discouraged from applying to "unlikely" colleges based on their stats . . . they have their own school-specific database that goes back a few years that informs them on odds of admission. But that being said, students are still "supported" if they choose an "unlikely" at any point in the process, and someone in the top 5% at HM probably would at least have "reach" chances at any school. [/quote]
That's what I was thinking.  Just trying to imagine this conversation: hi, your child is in the top 5% of our grade, please don't apply to an Ivy.  That said, I heard that they don't like too many reaches and (strongly?) discourage more than 3.[/quote]

They want to balance out the college lists, so they do guide the kids to choose a range of reaches, targets, and likelies. I have no idea what transpired with PP's friend's niece, and it's pointless to speculate through that many levels of hearsay anyway.[/quote]

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