<p>Folks, This is a free internet forum. You can come and go whenever you want. When you come in, do so with some new ideas to add to the discussion. Don’t jump into the discussions if you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute.</p>
<p>Congratulations Scholwannabe! Now what are the palm readers and fortune tellers thinking? :)</p>
<p>This thread is so ridiculously off topic and inflammatory. I honestly think it should be closed. If the mods don’t do it then just don’t post. Let it die out.</p>
<p>Lax, Great contributions… Keep them coming! :D</p>
<p>Posted by Pulsar
This is what I see:</p>
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<li>I never heard of any one public high school (let alone Danbury High School) from which HYPS selected 4 kids in one year.</li>
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<p>Pulsar,</p>
<p>From an article on the next town over with a HS enrollment of 1700 students…</p>
<p>“…along with the 5 percent of seniors who are typically accepted to Ivy League colleges and universities, 19 seniors applied to MIT last year.”</p>
<p>That would be about 21 kids to the Ivies alone, plus any kids accepted at MIT or Stanford. My town would post similar stats… Is it impossible that the quads are great kids with solid credentials and engaging personalities whose drive and maturity impressed the committees at Yale?</p>
<p>Sue22, Couple of clarifications. First: It’s not 4 kids to all IVYS MIT Stanford. A lot of High Schools do this. It’s 4 kids to any one of these HYPS schools like the 4 kids instance to Yale. Second: The post just says I haven’t heard of it, not what others would have heard of. As to 4 kids to Yale, I only posted the data so that people can make a judgment about URM or other hooks are a help or not in admissions. Just because they have a great personality etc…, sorry, tons of kids who are rejected have it, imho. If you think otherwise, I understand it’s your opinion. I know what conclusion any logically inclined person grounded in statistics would come to. Any thing is possible, some things are less possible than others!</p>
<p>Pulsar,
You certainly have a lot of strong opinions about prep schools for someone who has never attended one, had a child at one, worked in admissions or sat on a board of trustees (do you even know what an endowment is and how it is used?). A few days ago I started to write a rebuttal to one of your posts then stopped when I realized it was futile. You have your delusions and you’re clearly sticking to them. Instead I’ll direct you to ExieMITAlum’s excellent post:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/916231-word-wise-student-cc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/916231-word-wise-student-cc.html</a></p>
<p>You should realize you’re coming off as uninformed, hostile and, frankly, a bit obnoxious, not qualities valued by admissions officers. I hold out hope you’re just a ■■■■■ having a laugh.</p>
<p>Strong opinions are sometimes necessary evils.</p>
<p>@ Sue22</p>
<p>pulsar is a ■■■■■, it is like a small child always craving attention if you give it none it will die</p>
<p>Hcos the ■■■■■ hunter, How is the soccer season going so far?</p>
<p>good haven’t lost a game in 7 months…</p>
<p>Hcos12893:i agree with you, Pulsar seems unreliable to me, ■■■■■■■■ is possible</p>
<p>Exo, Good luck at Deerfield. You only have two years and It’s a pressure cooker.</p>
<p>I reread a private PM whereby it was disclosed there was a top student with excellent credentials only accepted by one prestigous BS and they were told by the school if they ultimately didn’t think it was a good fit for their student, that any of the BSs were willing to allow family to contact them and “trade-up” so to speak. urban legend? I think whether acknowledged or not, the BSs do talk to each other, just can’t get caught.</p>
<p>^ In the case of colleges the schools can not talk about applicants … accepted students is a different animal though</p>
<p>“Colleges and schools may not talk to each other” may be like: We shouldn’t talk on the cell phone while driving, everyone knows, but how many follow? It is possible that the adcoms may be members of an association of adcoms. So at least an informal contact can’t easily be ruled out. I don’t see how “fit” arguments can easily account for so many admitted to either PA or PEA.</p>
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<p>What I love about this board is that people will believe whatever someone tells them if they already hold that belief. And there are lots of people who masquerade as experts that send PM’s and spin tales because they need to feel important.</p>
<p>They don’t prior to admissions unless you specifically ask for a referral - and sometimes not even then. And even if they did - how would that affect you? </p>
<p>Move on, for Pete’s sake. Your children are not well served by the endless speculation.</p>
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<p>Because you don’t have any experience beyond the limited confines of this board. Get on campus and spend a few years there and the differences will become clearer. But lack of understanding combined with pure speculation and fictionalized versions of what goes on with Adcoms and interviewers serves no one.</p>
<p>Hmm… The admissions statistics are so convincing well above the noise level and year after year that this is not random and something ought to be causing this. May be adcoms/emissaries can chip in if they are reading these posts as they probably have the answer that can explain this phenomenon.</p>
<p>Believe me, I want to put this to rest and want to believe in make-believe. But now it sounds like, the schools can’t talk about applicants, but they can talk to one another once a candidate is accepted. So they do talk to each other…</p>
<p>Not in the way you are implying. No one has that kind of time, frankly. But nice try.</p>