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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe expand your horizons beyond the neighbor’s kid who goes to a public and got into UVa, but your friend Sally’s son didn’t despite her saying that he’s doing really well at Gonzaga.

According to the WSJ:
[i]Among all high-school students in the U.S., 8.5% attend private high schools, according to federal data. Among the eight Ivy League schools, the percentage of students who graduate from a private high school is about four to five times that.[/i]

So for every 100 spots in an Ivy League, 40 of them are taken up by a student from a private school. [/quote]
These 40 students have the strongest academic backgrounds and can afford to pay full tuition, ensuring the Ivy League school at least four years of tuition revenue. This allows the school to provide merit-based aid to attract the other 60 students with super high academic record, which contributes substantially to the school overall academic ranking.  They dont want just rich kids, but academic rich kids, so that school academic reputation is still intact.  [/quote]

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