<p>CRLS is the one public high school in Cambridge, resulting from the merger (around 1979?) of the Rindge School of Technical Arts and Cambridge Latin (the second oldest school in the US, or something like that). It’s a stone’s throw from Harvard Yard. Harvard gives a tip to Cambridge residents (not just CRLS graduates). This is a fairly common practice among colleges. Additionally, a fair number of Harvard faculty who reside in Cambridge send their children there. And, of course, a lot of Harvard alumni stick around after college and also send their kids to CRLS. As a result, it is not always easy to figure out how much of a tip/hook graduating from CRLS in and of itself gives applicants as opposed to being facbrat or legacy (or sometimes both). One way of thinking about it is to look at where else a CRLS admit to Harvard was admitted.</p>