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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, that's great but how many of these kids are legacies?  It's one thing to be admitted to a school that accepts less than 1 out of 10 applicants but for legacies, it's 1 out of 3, which is a completely different ball game and a school like St Alban has plenty of Ivy legacies.[/quote]

Shouldn't there be lots of legacies at all of these well-regarded local independent schools (e.g. GDS, Maret, Sidwell, Holton, Potomac, etc.)?  I can't really think of why there would be more Ivy parents at STA. Yet these numbers are really high from what I've seen (and from what the "matriculation stats" spreadsheet indicates, see link: http://matriculationstats.org/).  In other words, I'd argue that common sense supports the idea that it is an "apples to apples" comparison.

Conversely, I would guess that at top Catholic schools like Prep/Visitation/Gonazaga, etc., there might be (a) more students who want to go to a Catholic school; and (b) fewer Ivy alum parents, so that it probably wouldn't be an apples to apples comparison if you just measured how many of their students were accepted into Ivies.

In the end, I believe college matriculations is of limited utility in judging a high school, since it depends so much on the native aptitude of the given student (and other factors like legacy/athlete come into play).  I would say that this does show that St. Albans has a strong academic cohort (so if you want your kid to be surrounded/pushed by high achieving peers, you might look at this) and that it appears to have a strong reputation among college admissions committees.[/quote]

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