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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Post-SC ruling and Test fluid world, the safest thing a t20 can do is double their questbridge and posse numbers and then load up on affluent families and/or kids coming from known privates.

They’ll end up w a barbell community - rich and poor - but they’ll increase Pell numbers which gets mentioned in the NYT and helps w ratings, their diversity numbers will look fine (also sure to be a NYT follow up article), the yield numbers will be solid and their budget will be fine.

So they’ve decided that’s a deal they’re willing to take. To look better to outsiders while keeping full pay kids. Even if it creates a problematic situation within the classroom. [/quote]

Right. And haven’t they done this? That’s exactly the formula they’re using.[/quote]

Correct.  They need the data from the questbridge posse kids. 
But the elite private school kids (as a population) can do the work and they come with money to boot.  AND they will have every support needed to succeed as alums as well.  Remember, these colleges need their graduates to get elite jobs and do noteworthy things after graduation.  Private school kids have networks.

I have both public and private school kids.  If you look at the Ivy grads from our DC public and the Ivy grads from our private they are on very different trajectories.  [b]The public school kids are mostly working at non-profits and some just tutoring full time.[/b] The private school ones are at Goldman Sachs etc.  Sure, I'm stereotyping a bit but not by much.  It's pretty shocking when you drill down and look at where the kids end up after graduation. [/quote]

This is really a weird observation.  Most public school students can't afford to work at an NPO...and the tutoring full-time is odd.

The DCPS kids I know (either Walls or JR) are working at Blue Origin (Bezos space company), an AI start-up in SFO and Morgan Stanley.[/quote]

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