<p>Well for those of us who are lucky enough to get into top boarding schools... Are you ready to accept that your chances of getting into Harvard/Ivy/HYPSM will be decimated unless you are in the top 10% in which you will be close to guaranteed an acceptance.</p>
<p>A lot of the people in the 5+ decile at Exeter can be in the top percentile in many of the schools we come from...</p>
<p>Just wondering, I definitely am ready to give up that slight benefit.</p>
<p>Decimated?
Lol alright if you say so. Last time I checked a matriculation list for 1 of my schools graduating class, 45% of the class went to Ivy/Ivy level/top LA schools.</p>
<p>I exaggerated a bit, I guess.</p>
<p>Being top half of graduating class is like being top 10% of applicants to Exeter which is brutal.</p>
<p>I don't think it will be hard fro me to go to ivy from boarding school...But thats just me. I'm not the smartest guy in the world but college acceptance is more than just grades..as is prep school acceptance. Not that I don't think I'll be in the top half or anything.</p>
<p>Yeah I know, in that regard I think a prep school education can totally beef up my application.</p>
<p>Or it could totally make you have to work harder. Just because we go to challenging schools doesn't mean the colleges don't recognize that. Sure they understand we have demanding requirements in school + sports, but they also know that we have money (unless we have scholarship or FA). And knowing that we have money and are more likely able to take SAT Prep, ACT Prep, tutoring, more money for more ECs and enrichment programs, is a big factor they'll consider as well. Why do you think goodie goodie inner city kids make it out and strike big?</p>
<p>40% of SPS students are accepted to Ivies...</p>
<p>So wouldn't it be graduating in the top 40%?</p>
<p>^^Another good example..mine wasn't from SPS. I mean if you look at matriculation numbers for single graduating classes (mostl iekly have to ask at interview). Its pretty ridiculoius...you don't need to even be considered one of the smarter people. Really if your doing pretty alright at a top school and really well rounded, which is what these schools help you become... Then you improve chances of enrollment.</p>
<p>ITs not a certain percent of the people with best grades gain auto acceptance or anything..its really not all about who gets the best grades.</p>
<p>I think that we should also consider the fact that not everyone at a top BS wants to go to an Ivy, there are tons of other wonderful schools outside of the Ivies.</p>
<p>And on a personal note I feel that if your only goal is to get into an Ivy you are most likely not really finding a job that you will love/enjoy doing to the fullest extent.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LOVE love your screenname! (referring to exeter, yes?)
as well as loving that, i agree with your comment</p>
<p>That is a horrible arguement(not trying to insult you). Almost all of the HADES schools send at least 45 kids(not A/E-- larger class sizes) to Ivy. That is about 35%. Add MIT, Stanford and UNC... You'll get about 50%.</p>
<p>The best part: Those kids say that the schools were easy. Most were offered scholarships to schools. Two different interviewers from two different schools got full rides to UVA and both of them got over half of their grad school paid for.(Both were lawyers). Both of them had jobs on the weekends and did Independent Study Projects all 4 years of law school. </p>
<p>They didn't struggle, they got to branch out and really make a huge impact on their fields. I'd rather be at Stanford than Harvard if I got that type of freedom and experience.</p>
<p>Sorry my screen name refers to SPS,
which is better than Exeter, lol</p>
<p>Lol. I thought you meant Big Red as in Lville.</p>
<p>I never realized there were so many big reds out there!</p>