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Nothing about Spectravoid’s ■■■■■■■■ post rings true.
If his school sends “a lot of kids” to H-Y-P and those other hyper-selective places then his school will be a readily identifiable place, and I challenge Spectravoid to identify it.
“Lots of kids” into H-Y-P will place it among a small handfull of schools in the Northeast (including my alma mater) and two or three schools elsewhere (e.g. Harvard-Westlake, St. Mark’s School of Texas).
No elite secondary school will have been “blacklisted” by Brown University. That’s rubbish.
All such schools function as preliminary screeners for selectivity (yes, the top secondary schools are meritocratic these days).
Go on, Spectravoid, tell us the name of your “blacklisted” school. I doubt you can or will, lest it turn out to be a place that isn’t so fecund of Ivy placement after all.</p>