<p>My dad's friend was telling him today that his son got accepted into Columbia's business school and American Universities Poly Sci's school early. The son never applied, but he goes to a private school in California. I've never heard of such a thing happening. The father said that these universities recruit people at private schools and chose his son, and he said he would be going there for one year (as part of some high schol program), and be automatically admitted as a university freshman the next year. He said ALL ivies and MOST prestigious schools do this. Is this true? Do prestigious schools just recruit at private high schools, even if the student does NOT apply? </p>
<p>Can’t wait to hear the responses to this one.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of this and I know a ton of kids at highly rigorous prep schools, places like Philips Andover, St. Paul’s and Roxbury Latin, that send a large proportion of their graduates to Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Perhaps he was recruited by the Columbia Secondary School and is wishfully thinking it is a magic ticket into the university?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Ivies having a prep school. I know a cellist friend of mine who studied at Julliard prep, but none other elite schools to know knowledge. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.columbiasecondary.org/”>http://www.columbiasecondary.org/</a></p>
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<p>But I see nothing on the website about guaranteed admission to Columbia University.</p>
<p>And, editing, I see that The Columbia Secondary School is a public school, making it unlikely they’d bother with recruiting.</p>
<p>Columbia University does not have an undergraduate business school, furthermore.</p>
<p>@woogzmama but it says so on their website. <a href=“Majors, Concentrations and Other Programs of Study | Columbia College”>http://www.college.columbia.edu/academics/programs</a></p>
<p>it says business management</p>
<p>I say a lot of parents exaggerate. Make up story sounds a lot better than real life.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle yep thats true.</p>
<p>OMG – some parent has either been promised the moon or fed a lot of horse manure. I have never heard of any sophomore being guaranteed a spot in any Ivy or top school, outside of early athletic commitments. He may have been told that if he goes to a specific summer program, or a specific prep school, his chances of then being admitted to school xx are highly likely based on the odds. </p>
<p>toe, just smile and nod. Don’t get stressed out. It’s part of growing up. Story telling is one of favorite activities parents get to do and then tend to exaggerate or leave out important details. The problem is when other parents who are insecure don’t know the truth and get upset why their kids are not so smart. There is no such thing because if you read the book the Gatekeepers you know, Harvard Westlake is one prestigious private high school. </p>
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Business Management is a major within Columbia College; that is different from Columbia Business School, which is a graduate school under the Columbia University umbrella, or the Wharton School, which is a school awarding undergraduate (and graduate) degrees under the Penn umbrella.</p>
<p>@skieurope Oh, so its kinda like the liberal arts school of Columbia that offers business management? cause columbia college is still part of columbia university, just not their business school. </p>
<p>Also, how do u get the grey box when u copy paste what another CCer posted. I always wondered how people get the grey box. </p>
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<p>Thanks @TomSrOfBoston thats so cool!!!</p>
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<p>I am not going to put it past a school to go after someone they want academically, which not too different than going after a D1 athlete. </p>
<p>I recommend reading the athletic threads and there several example of athletes who got into D1 school and have never submitted an actual application. Therefore, I do not see why that cannot happen. The lead swimmer on my DS’s former swim team already has his college acceptance in hand and never applied. And was told did not have to take the SAT, even though it is required by that school for other applicants. Do you think Katie Ledecky actually sent in an application to Stanford or ever will? I highly doubt it. She just needs to show up and sign enrollment papers.</p>
<p>There were three kids in my undergraduate freshman class at 14, 15, and 16, who were from surrounding high schools. They all were very upfront about the fact that they got academically recruited because it were known they were more than ready. However, they still had to apply, but they were approached and knew they were in before they submitted the application. Two of them went on and had multiple PhDs in the sciences before age 24, from MIT and Stanford. </p>
<p>The couple from whom we bought our first home have a son who met an admissions officer from Princeton at his private school college day, sometime the first semester of his junior year. The officer upon seeing the kid’s record point blank told him he would be accepted and on top of that it would a waste for him to do his senior year if he wanted to start at Princeton. The kid, smartly, took the officer up on it. The son was sent an acceptance letter a week after he sent his application long before the April 15 and never did his senior year of high school. And this was not a likely letter, it was an acceptance letter with an enrollment agreement enclosed - and we saw that in the month of January just a couple months after meeting that officer. He never even graduated really, but the school let him come back and walk with his senior class the following year enough, even as a now entering sophomore at Princeton. I could see people not believing that easy.</p>
<p>@awcntdb: OK, and how many years ago did these academic recruitments occur?</p>
<p>My understanding that they certainly happened in the past (back when feeder relationships existed between various prep schools and Ivies) and admission to the top schools wasn’t nearly as competitive.</p>
<p>I know that feeder relationships have really changed over the past few decades, however, and competition for slots is insane compared to 20, 10, or even 5 years ago.</p>
<p>Also, the assertion that CBS is recruiting a 10th-grader strains believability. Unless they really want to kiss up to the dad. Speaking of which, is the dad famous/powerful/rich?</p>
<p>bro you got trolled by that dude </p>
<p>Toe, Is the kid an athlete?</p>