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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No "feeder" schools for Ivies![/quote]

Right - just schools that consistently send an insanely higher percentage of their graduates to Ivies than every other high school, year after year. [/quote]

Sure...but you also have to control for the SES of the parents and stuff like legacies and recruited athletes.

All things being equal, your kiddo might get an extra boost on admissions because the quality of education they received from a top notch private helped them achieve higher test scores, better ECs, etc.  But it's naive to simply look at the list of college acceptances from a private and assume that your kid will have a better shot merely by being there.  [/quote]

Is it more naive to look at percentages of Ivy admits from schools which is, like, actual math and factual information that v can be confirmed or to rely instead on “control[ling]…for stuff like legacies and recruited athletes.” Did STA and Sidwell all of a sudden become athletic powerhouses that send hordes of kids to Ivy League schools without me being aware? Are there really that many more legacy Ivy kids at GDS and NCS than Walt Whitman, which is 4 times the size of these schools? These lazy tropes are so exhausting. [/quote]

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