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swampyankee22 t1_jacnnma wrote

Reply to comment by WahWahBaby in Is germantown friends school as good as they say? by snooloosey

Used to work in admissions, including with GFS, and the advantage is true at the margins and for private schools with good academics whose profile kinda fit the college. So we were kinda crunchy, and GFS students were a good fit, so if a kid were at the margins we'd take them bc we wanna keep getting GFS kids and they probably know what they're applying to.

But it really made no difference if a kid was clearly over the bar or not, there were other ways of getting in if they were borderline, and we wouldn't lay out for just any old private school.

In short, I would not spend 50k a year from middle school on to "game" the system. Just get your kid to study and they'll be fine.

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Series_G t1_jacx8w3 wrote

Thanks for those last two sentences. That's really where it's at, for me.

Even at our very challenged public school, the kids who have grit and drive end up at Harvard, Brown, and so on. The amount of money people are spending to stay in their bubble is a headscrstcher to me.

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