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Anonymous wrote:How many nonhooked students at your DC area private school were accepted into top 15/Ivies this year? If willing, please share the name of your school or at least the size of student body and the specific acceptances.

Will you please stop?! How many ways can you ask the same question? Go back to your SCOIR data and obsess. You can't match SCOIR data (unhooked kids) to anecdotal info. News flash: NOT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT A HOOK OR NOT. You know who can help you out? Your child's college counselor. He/she is just an email away.

New PP here - but sadly, this is not the case at some schools.

And counselor will NEVER tell you even from past data whether most people were legacy or athlete (let alone VIP and diversity)

And? What difference does it make? Your kid should pick schools that are good fits for them and let the chips fall where the will. What happened with other kids iin a different cycle has almost no bearing whatsover with your kid, their application and the cycle they are in.

Of course - and this is what we did. But it is 100% helpful to be told (made up example) "I see Duke is the top of your list. Just to let you know, the only people who have gotten into Duke from our school over the past 10 years were athletes or legacy. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but when strategizing your applications, I thought it might be helpful for you to know this."

How many of these VIP + legacy hook admits do you think there actually are in any given year among the approximately 4000 admits to Yale and Princeton?

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way to know people's "hooks." If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling!

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades.

LOL - yeah - right.

I can give you two examples from our DC's graduating class. And yes - both had VIP + legacy hooks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many nonhooked students at your DC area private school were accepted into top 15/Ivies this year? If willing, please share the name of your school or at least the size of student body and the specific acceptances.

Will you please stop?! How many ways can you ask the same question? Go back to your SCOIR data and obsess. You can't match SCOIR data (unhooked kids) to anecdotal info. News flash: NOT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT A HOOK OR NOT. You know who can help you out? Your child's college counselor. He/she is just an email away.

New PP here - but sadly, this is not the case at some schools.

And counselor will NEVER tell you even from past data whether most people were legacy or athlete (let alone VIP and diversity)

And? What difference does it make? Your kid should pick schools that are good fits for them and let the chips fall where the will. What happened with other kids iin a different cycle has almost no bearing whatsover with your kid, their application and the cycle they are in.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no way to know people's "hooks." If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling!

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades.

Yea, they do. If your school lets you look at previous class results, you'll see that kids with statistically 'average' grades for the class do get into top schools, though often with parents in the seven-digit donation range.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no way to know people's "hooks." If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling!

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades.

Want to bet? I’ll put as much on the line as you want that this statement is false.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no way to know people's "hooks." If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling!

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades.

But they do with awful test scores!!! The Reddit WL kid had a 29 ACT only. Test optional at those schools let in a lot of lesser academics

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way to know people's "hooks." If my cousin is the director of admissions at Yale, I'm not telling!

It all ends up coming out by May of senior year at DMV small privates - the kids suss it all out - it's hard for a Yale or Princeton admit to go unnoticed when they have never been in rigorous courses or get average grades.

No one gets into Yale or Princeton with average grades.

Certainly more unhooked Ivy admits and top 15 at our big3 than last couple years. Always hard to know exactly who is hooked but does seem there was a bump

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Anonymous wrote:Can you define “non-hooked”?

Let's start with this definition: White or Asian kid not recruited for sports.

Race is not a hook

There really is no way to tell whether an accepted student was unhooked. Lots of hooks are not readily visible.

Unhooked international into HYPSM from my kid’s school.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was non-hooked to an Ivy and Hopkins. DC private.

not posting on instagram.

Being at a DC private is a hook.

k

Not ours. Lol

Anonymous wrote:My kid was non-hooked to an Ivy and Hopkins. DC private.

not posting on instagram.

Being at a DC private is a hook.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of these posts?

For the private school parents who shell out a ridiculous amount under the guise of education when really they want either indoctrination to a religion or to say their kid went to private LOL. Either way it's a free country til the election.


Also Moms4Liberty is all over social media pushing private over public for voucher programs. Ie school choice garbage.

Huh? Our kids were in privates (same for k-8, different for HS) because the schools were a good match for them and they were thriving. We were lucky to be able to afford it and not really think about the cost. If we couldn't afford it, they would have gone to our public. Our very large public is a very different environment than our private was - but that doesn't mean it was inferior. Kids were happy with their pathway and so were we. Everybody finds what works for them.