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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at a very prestigious university. Strongly agree that recruiting first gen/low income kids is a priority. They strongly prefer to see kids who've overcome obstacles and worked their way through adversity, over kids who've been fed from a silver spoon their whole lives.

On the whole, you'll find those kids more at public schools than at private schools. Obviously there will be some exceptions, but the optics/perception of private HS are not warm in this day and age.

There's also the numbers. Grade inflation really isn't it (all colleges know these grading disparities, they're longstanding), but I guess it makes private parents feel better about the situation. Kids have to be SUPER competitive to make it to the top of their HS class in most publics around here. Once admitted, the Whitman kid tends to outperform the Big 3 kid. The Big 3 kid will, in turn, tend to outperform the Springbrook HS kid.

These patterns are not "new" because of COVID. What *has* changed in the last year are a) more emphasis on a politics of racial justice and equity, along with class politics to an extent and b) lots of deferrals from the class of 2020 filling up (up to 1/3 of) spots in next year's freshman class. [/quote]

There is some interesting info here but also some utter BS. The level of work at top privates is very high—those students are very prepared for college and always have been.[/quote]

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