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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, have you looked up any actual statistics? 55-61% of kids at Ivies are from public school. I think about 13% tend to be international. Presumably the rest are from private schools (with some minuscule amount of homeschoolers). Only 7% of kids in the US attend private school and I’m sure a large number of those schools are religious and SN schools that likely do not give much of a boost. I went to Penn (from a private school btw) and know that they only give weight to legacy status for early admission applications. So private school does give you an advantage. Being a parent doesn’t mean that you can put in specific inputs and get specific outputs. It’s not that easy.

I also am super uncoordinated and think that if you can play at a D1 level you should get preferential admission status. No one in our society has a problem with people who are smart by virtue of innate ability getting outsized benefits. Why shouldn’t athletes? Both groups also work hard. I hear you on the legacy thing but the universities will never change that $$$[/quote]

A lot of self-selection involved. The public school intake will be dominated by the same handful of affluent public schools too. And the private school students will also have other hooks such as legacy or prominent/famous/connected parents. [/quote]

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