Do you think it is easier to get into a top college from private or public?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on major and narrative.

If non-Stem and humanities or social sciences with strong app narrative, private school gets you there much easier.

Why don’t people here understand this?

I am not sure I understand this - is it bc privates can help to create a narrative better for humanities kids?

I think it’s because practical people don’t want to pay $90k a year for a humanities major at a private college.

Have you not read up on the process? Listened to podcasts? If you are applying to most T25, it's fairly easy to move around and switch. You are applying as a major, based on evidence (ECs, transcripts, LOR, essays), not committing to a major. AO "read" an application with a major in mind (the one you list), but of course aren't admitting you to that major (with a few known exceptions for Wharton/Dyson, and CS/engineering at certain schools where it's hard to switch).

For the most part, private high schools encourage you to dig into the writing/creativity that humanities majors are known to have. Very easy to create that narrative.

Now its way too late to do this in 11th grade, but for kids at private schools with strong humanities, easy to get into Brown as a classics major from a top private with Latin, an independent research project in Classics, a summer internship in antiquities, and 1 summer program (with one of 2 companies in the space). In fact, our non-DMV private CCO recommends it often.

When you get to Brown, if you have non-Classics interests, great. That's the entire point of the OC.

I have a kid in public school very interested in classics /latin/history (high gpa/test scores) - do you think this path is harder from public school? Just kind of wondering what we can do to help him