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[quote=Anonymous]Looking for some informed views on current college admissions.   If your child wants to go to an Ivy League school is he/she better off (1) going to a large decent area public HS, where he/she will graduate in the top 5 percent of the class, versus (2) going to a highly selective private HS where he/she will graduate somewhat lower in the class ranking (say top 20 percent of the class).   For comparison purposes, the private school typically sends 5-6 kids to Ivy league schools each year while the much larger public school usually sends 1-3 kids to Ivies annually.   Assume he/she will be happy at either school, his/her AP and standardized test scores will be the same at either school, he/she will excel at a varsity sport at either school, and her parents are both Ivy league alums.  Is one high school scenario more favorable than the other for Ivy League admissions?  Do those schools look more favorably on admitting kids from the very top of the schools they don't usually see in their incoming class, or do they look more favorably at kids coming from schools that have proven to be good pipelines even if the kid is not ranked at the very top of the class of the selective school.   I know this is a tough hypothetical, but I'm interested in whether there is any consensus.  [/quote]

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