Which school?

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<p>40% plus of every ivy class is comprised of recruited athletes (17% average), legacies (10-15%) and URMs (15-20%):</p>

<p>Michele Hernandez, nationally known private college admissions consultant located in Vermont. Author of the book A is Admissions: The Insider’s Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges and former admissions officer at Dartmouth College</p>

<p>“40 percent of every Ivy League school is filled up with special cases: athletes, minorities, low-income, legacies or development cases. They’re tagged, and schools lower the admissions standards a lot for those kids. So you got to know how to use those tags to your advantage. If you’re a legacy and you apply early to the school, you’ve got a 50 percent better chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>This has been said so many times, but it really is all about where you think your child will be happiest-then, they will probably perfrom best. SPS is much more rural and smaller and has a very different chaacter from Milton. If your child really will want to go into Boston and is more comfortable in a larger group, then Milton may be better. Finally, the reason these schools get so many kids into the Ivies is because they draw really talented students. That means that your d will face the toughest competition she has ever seen. If you really are going to make a selection of bs based on college matriculation, then you had better study where the middle half of each school goes and decide if that is acceptable to you.</p>

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<p>Your child has been blessed with a richness of choice. They are all good schools. Please decide and notify all schools.</p>

<p>Administators and waitlisted students find endless musings by the richly blessed as less then amusing.</p>

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<p>I find the thought of an 8th grader focusing on ‘The Ivies’ a bit absurd. The Ivies are all fine schools, but so are many others. The Ivies are not all the same - a kid who will flourish at one, may not fit at all at another.
Finally, there is no clear picture of what gets anyone into any given school, or whether going to a given school really makes a difference. The kids at the best prep schools are all likely to go to good or great colleges because of 1) their own qualities 2) legacy status and 3) help from the schools. Which factor matters the most? Impossible to say. Choose the school that seems the best fit and get on with it.</p>