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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it any better when you have 50+ kids from some giant Moco public applying to the same Ivy? Genuinely curious.[/quote] Good question but I think it's because: -Colleges will limit the number of kids they take from any one high school. Not a strict quota but they know how small the privates are. -Privates have many more big donor and VIP legacies. Simple legacy means very little in the DMV--you often need to be a donor/VIP and the privates have a lot of these. -Privates have a high percentage of sports recruits. They have to staff the same sports teams the publics do on a fraction of the student body. So there are far more athletes per capita. -Privates also have a much higher URM ratio than most publics. At the top ones it's almost 50-50. These kids are gold for college admissions. [/quote]
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