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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Certainly the percentage of freshman at Ivies from public schools has been growing . Many of those kids come from the increasing number of selective magnets, as more cities nationwide have them now. I've been interviewing for an Ivy in this area for 20 years. A lot of the kids who are truly scaling the academic heights come out of Thomas Jefferson and Blair. [b]Oxford and Cambridge Universities have stated that the kids earning first class degrees (their equivalent of highest honors) are disproportionately from state schools.[/b] Those kids had the same admissions scores,but attained them with less handholding than students from independent schools.

That said, we still take quite a few from the privates, but few besides Sidwell and GDS have a consistent track record. The admissions offices see through gimmicks, like the fact that St Albans' literary magazine has four coeditors in chief.[/quote]

This is true but misleading in the context of your post and this overall thread. Oxford and Cambridge continue to admit primarily from private schools. I don't know the ratio for each and every college but its roughly 75%-80% private with the rest coming from state schools. Kings College Cambridge has always traditionally drawn more from the state schools and is attractive to state school applicants for that fact, but its still only something like 50/50.[/quote]

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