Fun fact of the day, independent private schools make up 40% of student enrollment at most Ivies...where is the equity?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. If 40% come from privates, that means 60% come from public schools, which makes them the majority. What's the issue here?

Private school graduates are less than 9% of U.S. high school graduates each year.

9 orange beads in a jar with 91 blue beads. Harvard picks 10 out of the jar: 4 orange and 6 blue.

The bag is not hs grads, it's college ready HS grads who apply. Those are not evenly distributed.

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Unis fortunately are not yet trawling across the population to match percentages from every category of background.