<p>I’ve got one of those too (though he didn’t apply to Andover…). And he was waitlisted at the school where he fit a niche. </p>
<p>So I don’t have the answer to what unwraps the golden ticket to bs…but I don’t think that boarding school applications are as bad as college applications…yet. Perhaps, though, it’s just that bs attracts a narrower pool–as the article points out, many of the students who apply to top colleges don’t meet their minimum quals. I find it very depressing that colleges would actively recruit students they will almost certainly reject, just to lower their acceptance rate, but that’s what it sounds like is happening at some schools. It all seems like a silly game, really.</p>