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[quote=Anonymous]Any analysis of DC vs NYC or public vs private, much less DC private or public vs NYC private is useless unless the analysis is adjusted for population overall, class (sample size), number of applications submitted/number of rejections, etc.

Comparing # of admits from various schools to others isn’t really useful without having that contextual information.

For starters, it makes sense that a metropolitan area that is 3.5x as large has more admissions to all schools. Schools such as Dalton or Collegiate have the luxury of selecting the most likely Ivy-bound students from a huge population every year they create their classes.

But, once you adjust for some of the factors you can adjust for with the info available, if it still skews heavily toward NYC privates, I’d start looking at it from another direction.  Why are the Ivies so bad at finding great students from Missouri or DC or West Virginia or wherever? Does the idea that the students who can succeed at Ivies predominantly come from the same places year after year really hold water?  I think some of these assumptions need to be challenged if the Ivies are going to turn around and lecture the rest of us on DE&I.  [/quote]

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