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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t necessarily disagree that there is a contingent of wealthy folks who prefer private colleges as opposed to large state schools. But Wake Forest is clearly NOT one of the those private colleges. [/quote]

I would agree, although I do think Wake is a good school.

Not sure why I did this other than curiosity, but I looked a the elite private prep schools cited (Georgetown Day, Holton Arms, Choate, Phillips Exeter, St Pauls, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, Phillips Andover) and ran the number of matriculants going to UVA, Wake, W&M (because it is usually the other in-state school cited) and Wesleyan (somewhat randomly chosen as a fairly elite LAC).  Adjusting for undergraduate enrollment, UVA has 61% more matriculants from these schools than Wake, W&M has 64% more matriculants, and Wesleyan has a whopping 639% more matriculants than Wake.   (Sorry Michigan fan, I didn't run numbers on UM.)

Considering UVA (and W&M) are 2/3rds in-state students who are less likely to be attending these OOS private prep schools, the numbers are perhaps understated.  
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Almost all of those schools are in the NE. Students from the NE are likely to stay in NE. [/quote]

Huh? Since when is UVA in the NE?

I got into 8 boarding schools (including 5 of the schools PP looked at, plus Taft, Milton, and Deerfield) and ended up at Andover. I can tell you for a fact that no one was talking about Wake Forest. UVA and Michigan were considered fine destinations, but mostly it was expected that you would go to an Ivy, MIT, CalTech, Stanford, a top 5 LAC, or something somewhat specialized like Georgetown SFS (not the College, which wasn’t considered good enough). [/quote]

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