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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Phillips Academy Andover, the most elite prep school in America only got 4 kids into Harvard in 2025. In the class of 2023 12 kids got into Harvard. Similar trends are at other top schools with only 6 getting into Yale in 2025 and 12 getting in 2023. Only 4 matriculated to Penn in 2025 compared to 7 in 2023. Only 13 got into UChicago, compared to 21 getting into UChicago in 2023. The trend holds across most elite schools such as Northwestern, Duke, etc.

There seems to be serious anti-elite trends in college admissions. They clearly see these kids as "privileged" and are holding it against them. In this new era, you might just be better off sending your kid to public school.

https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/CCO_Profile_2024-2025.pdf

https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/SchoolProfile2023-2024.pdf[/quote]

I think your expectations that Andover will *always* send a certain number of kids to these few elite t10 colleges is pretty misguided. “Only” 6 kids got into Yale omg! It’s going to be different year to year and majority of kids at Andover still have great college acceptances.

It’s possible this was just a weaker graduating class. It’s also possible kids are applying more broadly than in the past and didn’t submit as many applications to HYP therefore not as many acceptances. I don’t think the immediate conclusion should be “send your kids to public schools!” (Although personally I’m a big advocate of public education so for most kids I do think public school is better.) but you should choose a high school because it’s a good fit for your kid and will give them a good education and good hs experience, not for the sole purpose of getting into ivies. [/quote]

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