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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect the distinctions are not constant across student profiles.  For example, it may be that the very top students at public and private have relatively equally shots at the top Ivy schools, Stanford, and MIT.  My sense is that where kids at the top privates really get a benefit is in the middle of the class, especially if they are applying to SLACs.  E.g., decent -- but not very top -- students at Sidwell, GDS, and Cathedral schools are getting to schools -- e.g., most NESACs (Middlebury, Wesleyan, Colby, etc.), Haverford, Colgate, etc. -- whereas kids at even the top publics need to be near the to for those schools.  [/quote]

Well, kind of. Middle-range kids at private schools tend to go to schools like NESACs alright, but it's because their parents can afford to pay for them. Similar kids at public schools are much more likely to go to state universities even if they could get into Haverford, Colgate, etc. because they just don't get as much aid as they need or their parents never let them apply there in the first place.[/quote]

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