How NEGATIVE are college admissions from a top private versus public

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Parents who are new to private school, who went to public themselves and have their first kid in private (esp. for upper grades) don’t understand the alumni networking aspect. I swear, most of you’ve never read your school’s seasonal magazines.

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No, OP, it's all the same.

Please don't think that the grass is greener. Admissions officers compare your kid to their own classmates. Admissions are just as hard coming out of private than high school, since there are very intelligent and hard-working kids in BOTH. My kids are in Bethesda area high schools, the competition is fierce, they need more than a 12 APs to stand out from the pack, with extraordinary extra-curricular activities. Privates have rigorous courses, no grade inflation. It's all a wash.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who are new to private school, who went to public themselves and have their first kid in private (esp. for upper grades) don’t understand the alumni networking aspect. I swear, most of you’ve never read your school’s seasonal magazines.

Yeah, no. It only works for a few people in a few situations.

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If you think private school college admissions results are bad this year, you should check in with TJ parents. Yeesh.

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Anonymous wrote:College matriculation at our private is still much better than our local public schools. This may not be the case if your local public is a “W” school but probably that parity has existed for a long time. Colleges are less interested in umc white or Asian kids generally, it is not specific to private schools.

That must be why selective schools are majority Black, Latino, and poor.

Oh. Wait.

Our son was accepted at Duke and Brown. Currently at a public school many of you wouldn’t let your kids near. He did not get financial aid (190k) and we didn’t get merit so he is going to UMD with significant merit. Want to point out that there aren’t a lot of black and brown kids at selective schools because we can’t afford it. It’s unfortunate because we thought that being black and first gen college combo would be favorable but it wasn’t for those 2 schools. They didn’t care but UMD is giving him a chance.

Congrats! It's more about fit and economics than anything else.

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Anonymous wrote:All these college threads seem to neglect the role a private high school plays in the game of life. It’s more important than college. You need the college connections and pedigree if you didn’t come from one of the top private schools. But if you did your high school connections and education will carry you regardless of whether you get into an Ivy. The Eton > Oxbridge model still applies, even here and even after all these years.

Only an entitled private school kid would need to phone in a favor from someone when they can’t make it. I was able to find my own jobs without any help from anyone. I didn’t need any help. My record spoke for itself. I got every job I interviewed for. Funny thing, the Uber wealthy owner of the company I work for asked me a few times to consider the kids of his friends for jobs in my department. I always interviewed them as a courtesy and never hired any of them. It was pathetic how amazing they thought they were.

Ah but the thing is…they never need to make the call. That’s the whole point.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider the 17-yr-old freshman attending Columbia on a full scholarship who went to a DCPS HS.

Last time I checked, Ivy League schools don't do scholarships.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider the 17-yr-old freshman attending Columbia on a full scholarship who went to a DCPS HS.

Last time I checked, Ivy League schools don't do scholarships.

Correct. He got a full ride of financial aid. But that doesn't sell the story in the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider the 17-yr-old freshman attending Columbia on a full scholarship who went to a DCPS HS.

Last time I checked, Ivy League schools don't do scholarships.

Correct. He got a full ride of financial aid. But that doesn't sell the story in the same way.

But he’s there and not paying a dime. From Eastern. How many Big 3 kids didn’t get into Columbia last year?

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It's not exactly a secret that most of the Ivy League-type schools give full rides (or free tuition) to any student coming from a family under certain HHI thresholds.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider the 17-yr-old freshman attending Columbia on a full scholarship who went to a DCPS HS.

Last time I checked, Ivy League schools don't do scholarships.

They don’t do merit aid. They do do financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems bizarre the college AOs want to incentivize families to send their kids to bad public schools and/or ones in podunk nowhere.

Or maybe they are realizing a kid with some grit who earned their grades and other honors without help from the resources money buys would be excellent additions to their schools. Think about it, would you hire Carl and Brook’s daughter from the country club who has had every door automatically open for her and thousands of dollars invested in her to make her the perfect being or a person with just about equal accomplishments who did it all on her own?

Carl and Brook's daughter is a figment of your imagination.

You are saying there aren’t a ton of kids who grew up at country clubs and have every resource available to them? Have you ever met anyone making less than 200Κ a year?

I don't see what kids like that have to do with a college thread though? Most of them go to UVA, UNC, USC, schools like that. Not the ones DCUM salivates over.

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Anonymous wrote:College matriculation at our private is still much better than our local public schools. This may not be the case if your local public is a “W” school but probably that parity has existed for a long time. Colleges are less interested in umc white or Asian kids generally, it is not specific to private schools.

White and Asian kids make up 65-70% of student bodies at most selective schools. To suggest they are not interested in them is just sour, race-baiting grapes.