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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The experience of a student at a wealthy private is typically very different from the experience at a large public with a limited budget.

Generally speaking, course availability and getting the classes you actually want each semester can be a big difference between the two.[/quote]
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Just as the experience at an independent HS is very different from that a large public HS.  What some people will never understand (ahem, public school parents) is that parents who pay to send their kids to elite HS's aren't interested in having their with the masses at large public colleges, regardless of rankings.[/quote]

Thanks for talking about the elephant in the room. Why would a parent send their kid to a private/independent school with its small class and individualized attention only to have them go across the country to attend classes with 500 other students at Berkeley or UCLA.[/quote]

I dunno.  But I see a lot of large colleges on the top private schools’ matriculation lists so somebody is.  And many of the larger privates have pretty big intro classes too.  By your logic, everyone should be going to liberal arts colleges.

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I never said that or implied that (ever heard of a mid-sized university?). I did however look at top privates in NYC and it seems very few go to large publics in California (or elsewhere):

https://www.dalton.org/programs/high-school/college-counseling
https://www.horacemann.org/academic-life/college-counseling
https://www.brearley.org/about/college-matriculations-2018-2022
https://trinityschoolnyc.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/390/download/download_4530575.pdf

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And what exactly does this prove?  You could say the same thing about virtually every school - public or private - outside of California because they limit enrollment to 10 percent out of state.  Very odd post.  [/quote]

If you read more carefully, you'd notice that the vast majority from these schools do not go public, any public.[/quote]

And?  Why would they?  Beyond UCLA and Berkeley there haven’t been any in the top 20.  They’re not going to a low of lower ranked privates either.  I am not sure what point you are trying to make by posting links to matriculation data for the most exclusive and expensive private schools in the entire country. I bet if you dug a little deeper and looked at other private schools you would see a lot more matriculations to state colleges. What you are doing here is meaningless and weird.[/quote]

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