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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]funny how the private school kids are the cheaters - no surprise [/quote]

Cheaters

Homeschooled: 50%
Non-competitive public: 23.2%
Parochial: 19.1%
Competitive public: 17.6%
Independent: 12.2%

These percentages are appallingly high across the board, but what's striking is that the students from less competitive academic backgrounds--those who faced less competition from their classmates with respect to college admissions--cheated more than those who knew from day 1 that they'd be competing with their own classmates to get into Harvard et al. The homeschooling stat is particularly notable in this regard. [/quote]

The homeschooling stat likely suffers from small sample size, though. Not sure you can come to any conclusions based on that.

The low numbers for certain boarding and magnet schools is likely because some of those schools have an honor code that has absolutely zero tolerance for cheating--meaning you go before a board and if you're found to have cheated, you're gone. So the cheaters, if they're caught, don't graduate from those schools because they're thrown out and return to either their base school or drop down to a "lower-tier" boarding/independent school that takes people who are kicked out of the big ones.[/quote]

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