Did private schools get a bump in elite college admissions?

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Anonymous wrote:Private school has taught my DCs how to study efficiently, how to prepare and present materials effectively, how to problem solve and so much more. I also like that there are no AP classes and they are not swamped with busy work at their private. We didn’t send them to private for college admissions but my oldest with a 3.5 UW GPA got into 3 top 50 schools. I don’t think that would have happened from a public school.

There are quite a few very high acceptance rate colleges in the Top 50. Not sure why public students you refer would struggle with Top 50 admissions if ranking is literally all that matters.

What schools in the top 50 have “very high acceptance rates”? Last I checked none.

Rutgers - #40; 66% acceptance
Wisconsin - #35; 49% acceptance
OSU - #43; 53% acceptance
Purdue - #43; 53% acceptance (much lower for STEM, which means higher for non-STEM)
Texas A&M - #47; 63% acceptance
Virgina Tech - #47; 57% acceptance

Liberal Arts
Depauw #46; 66%
Furman #46; 67%

I think anything that is 50%+ (with again, higher acceptances for the most part for non-STEM) are definitely in the wheelhouse.

Those stats aren’t telling the OOS acceptance rates which are usually a lot lower than in-state. Also interesting that they are all state schools which usually is not the aim for kids coming from a private unless it’s UCLA or Michigan. And no one considers the liberal arts schools when referencing the Top 50.

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I imagine she meant “private T50.”

If you are at a private high school, you’re typically looking at private colleges and universities once outside of T35….

While very true, these are not “elite” schools.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, looking at our SCOIR data for our private, it seems that students do much better than average for many of the top 25 colleges, both university and SLAC. This seems to be true especially for kids who apply early decision. In some cases, two to three times as likely to be offered admission compared to the published ED (not regular, but ED) admit rates at those schools.

Do you have the data for this year?

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Would be helpful to get anecdotal info on how real kids fared this year.

Is there a college Results type thread that shows stats and outcomes?

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re a T50 alum and your child is competing with five other legacies in generic private versus zero legacies in generic public, then I believe your chances are better in public.

This, but in APS, MCPS, and FCPS most HSs are not “generic”, because they have lots of parents who are Ivy or T20 alums. The Ivy or T20 placement numbers from any school are HEAVILY impacted by students with hooks (legacy, recruited athlete, recruited musical skills, etc). An unhooked student will have very different admissions prospects than a hooked student from the same HS (private or public).

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering switching our kids from public to private. I know some people don’t care about college outcomes from private but our family absolutely does care. I have been looking at the instagram pages of colleges from both public and private schools in the DMV and the private schools seem to have done significantly better. I currently have 1 kid in high school (freshman at local well regarded public) and two kids in elementary. We applied to a few privates last year for oldest and he decided to stay at his public. I also looked at the college instagrams last year and it didn’t seem like a large difference but the difference this year seems more significant.

No and no

Private never ever does better.

I don't know what you are looking at but any W school, Magnet school etc does better than any private.

Doesn’t it depend on where you fall in the class? Kids profile is what determines it. If it’s top 10% at both (prob little difference) versus in the top 25 to 35% at a private versus same at public?

The outcomes are not the same for that cohort. Obviously assuming full pay you have much better outcomes at a private.

So if your kid is a superstar and an amazing tester, and will always be at the top of the pack, go public.

If kid possibly not in the top 10% of class, you will definitely have more options - including top 25 private universities - from a rigorous private high school.

I 💯 agree with this.
My unhooked kid is not in top 10% of class (don’t know bc no rank) and got into one Ivy and two T25 this year……Rigorous private HS with grade deflation.

That’s not happening at a public with an uw 3.8+ GPA.