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Maybe, maybe not. Private schools have a bit of a stigma now, in this anti-elite, inclusive shift.  I would save the money as there isn’t a big difference in career outcomes from the bottom performer at private vs. high performer at public…[/quote]

Um, that’s what the media and there PR engines of the schools would like to have you believe.

In reality, nearly every 40% of each Ivy League class comes from a private. This, despite the fact that there only 10% of all high school students attend private schools.

All those woke idiots celebrating the elimination of SATs and ACTs as requirements?  Guess what?  Holistic admissions is what was used to exclude Jewish students from the Ivies for decades.  Higher achieving Jewish kids were denied admission in favor of more likable WASPs. 
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Standardized testing was introduced to set a more objective standard for admissions.[/b]

Without it, you can expect more privileged kids to be admitted.

That's pretty simplistic logic. The Admissions landscape was actually much more impacted by the fact that not NEARLY as many people applied to OR were even interested in attending college in 1930's, 1940's, 1950's beyond  upper class and upper middle class white males .

Far more of that than some mass conspiracy to deny all the Jewish kids in America college admit in favor of " ALL the WASPS "

Young women, for example, were also not represented in as high of numbers at Harvard in 1960 as today, but that is also reflective of the fact that not NEARLY as many applied OR to any college for that matter

The SAT became common place when it became necessary to use some method to evaluate the HUGE jump in college admissions once the baby boomers started applying to college in massive numbers never seen before in 1960's and 1970's, including women.

Forget Asian American kids. The quota restraining their admissions regardless of accomplishments will remain constant. [/quote]
Thanks for this. A lot of people don’t seem to understand that test optional is not for increasing diversity. It’s for allowing the schools to admit low performing donor kids without hurting their stats. [/quote][/quote]

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