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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I can't find current stats, but when I attended Harvard some years back, fully 2/3 of the student body came from public high schools. And of the five of us who went to Harvard from my "big three" DC private, at least four were legacies. (The fifth might have been, too -- I just don't know.)[/b] [/quote]
When I read comments like these, I always wonder how many of the public school students admitted to top colleges are legacies too.  [/quote]

It doesn't seem likely that Harvard would fill 2/3 of the student body with legacy public school kids. Last I heard, Harvard accepts maybe 1/3 of legacy applicants but together these constitute about 10-12% of any incoming class. Surely many of those kids (private as well as public) got in on their own smarts. [/quote]

[b]Sorry, I wasn't suggesting the public school admissions were legacies -- on the contrary, I meant to suggest that the relatively high rate of Ivy acceptances at top privates might be attributable, in large part, to legacy status (which isn't information high schools include on their matriculation lists).

I'm no dunce -- I got into Columbia on my own merits -- but I'm sure my legacy status tipped the balance to get me into Harvard. (Certainly my college guidance counselor thought so!)[/b][/quote]

Perfect example: Poster is one person, accepted at 2 Ivies. So that means that even less than the 30 or so listed are actual different students. Of course, to combat the "legacy" at private you have the URM at public.[/quote]

Wow. Dog with a bone. Too bad PP didn't identify whether she was applying from public vs. private herself -- that would have given your paranoid innumeracy a little more legitimacy, no?

(And PP obviously didn't graduate in 2013 like the rest of those 36 kids, but clearly you're pretty much beyond hope when it comes to thinking about numbers like this.)[/quote]

The email trail is confusing, but I did say that I applied from a private school -- the bolded parts are all one poster (me).

I actually suspect private school Ivy acceptances are MORE likely to be legacies. Like I said, the year I graduated, at least 80% of the Harvard admissions from my private school were legacies. That's WAY more than 10-12% of each class they say are legacies.

I don't have any data on how many Ivy alums choose private vs. public for their kids, but it seems plausible to me that Ivy alums might be more likely to be financially in a position to send their kids to private schools.[/quote]

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