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[quote=Anonymous]17:22 again.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] ... 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]

I agree with you, that private school Ivy acceptances are more likely to be legacies. ... [/quote]
I'm not so sure I agree.  Here's how I think through the math ...

If a private school has 100 seniors, maybe 25% might get an Ivy legacy connection from at least one parent (25 students).  If 20% of the 100 seniors are admitted to Ivy colleges (20 students), what % of those are likely to be legacies?  Based on what PP wrote, let's assume 80%, or 16 students.

At one of the W public schools with 400 seniors, how many will have one Ivy educated parent?  Let's assume 40 of 400 (10%).  You might have 10 students admitted to Ivy colleges.  How many of those 10 students will come from one of the 40 Ivy educated families?  I'd be willing to bet it's close to 80% too.

We obviously can bicker about the numbers, and these are just my rough guesses.  But my underlying point is that many of the public school Ivy admits are likely legacies too.  It's disingenuous to pretend Ivy parents don't send their children to public schools, and that those legacies don't seek admission to the Ivy colleges.[/quote]

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