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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges need full pay students and private school families are more likely to have that kind of cash. [/quote]

+100.

Full pay has never hurt a college applicant. In this current environment of federal funding cuts and restrictions on international students, being full pay at any institution (yes, even Ivy+ universities) will be a hook. [/quote]

The reality is, in a private high school, most of your competitors are full pay.  In college admission, you are competing with your classmates, not competing with public school kids.

No, full pay is not a hook.[/quote]

It’s true that they’re competing against their classmates. However, while their private school classmates may be more likely to be full-pay, many of them may not have super  high grades (3.9 to 4.0), test scores, and unique ECs. Private schools also tend to be smaller (75-125 students/grade) than public schools (500+/grade). So, full-pay, high stats private school students likely are competing with >5 (SLAC) to ~20 (Ivy+) legitimately competitive classmates, as opposed to a public school student who has 100 classmates graduating as valedictorians and salutatorians (or very close—with equally high test scores).

I would much rather be the full-pay elite private school student in this scenario. College matriculations for c/o 2025 Big 3/5 students support my position. [/quote]

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