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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, this is very obvious.  In the 21st century it is not the priority of top Ivy League colleges to open the doors to graduates of rich and fancy prep schools. Their priorities are elsewhere. Anyone who thinks that sending their kid to a big three gives them an edge is about two decades behind the Times. 
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Colleges are a business—now and forever. It is absolutely the priority of highly selective colleges to admit wealthy, well prepared private school students.  They will falter if they become a true meritocracy.  That’s why need aware has made a resurgence. Full pay is also a hook.[/quote]

You are clueless. We are talking about Ivy League colleges. They are not need aware. They have more money than God.[/quote]

“Admitting a high proportion of private school students serves elite universities’ interests. During and after college, graduates from private schools are likely to outperform their public school peers. For example, in 2020, The Daily Princetonian reported, two-thirds of Princeton’s American Rhodes scholars attended private high schools, and the Association of Boarding Schools bragged in 2010 that its alumni are “3,000 percent more likely” to become Rhodes scholars than the average student. Prestigious postgraduate scholarships — or fancy postgraduation jobs — can help make a college more attractive to its deep-pocketed alumni and the next crop of prospective students.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/school-private-college.html
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This article is pretty much saying the same thing:

“Private prep schools seem to be the key to success when it comes to getting into an elite college like Dartmouth. After all, 34% of Dartmouth’s Class of 2025 went to “Independent Schools” while only 14% of U.S. high schoolers attend such institutions. What about private school applicants makes them so desirable to Ivy+ colleges and universities? Is it that these students are smarter, more athletic or more interesting? No. It’s the delicious scent of money wafting from these candidates that keep elite colleges feeding from a handful of high-level prep schools.

When I think of private schools, the first thing that pops into my mind is money. Many wealthy parents send their children to the best institutions money can buy, starting as early as preschool. At an institution as selective as Dartmouth, it’s also important to specify that the “Independent Schools” it pulls from (at least largely) aren’t just any old private high schools — they are elite college prep schools that turn students into premier applicants and come with built-in connections to Ivy+ colleges.

After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families.”

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

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