Does Prep School help college admission chances??

[Periwinkle]

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It looks like matriculation to Brown and Dartmouth and Yale are up for PA, and Harvard, Princeton and Cornell are down…with Ivies + SM down overall. I’d be a little concerned that matriculation to Harvard and Princeton (the two top schools in the country) are down.

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There seems to be two trends: incoming classes each stronger than the previous one and increasing difficulty in placing students in the top ten.

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<p>I’ll shock you. Of the frequently mentioned “top ten,” i.e., Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, MIT, and Stanford, I would have reservations about any of my children applying to 5 of them. </p>

<p>I can also well believe that a student would choose Yale, Dartmouth, or Brown over Harvard and Princeton.</p>