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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than looking at the colleges attend by students from elite private high schools, you need to know what type of high school students enrolled in a specific college attended. For example Colgate publishes this figure on his admissions profile page (42% private) but I think its fairly unique. (https://www.colgate.edu/admission-financial-aid/first-year-class-profile). Dept of Ed data does not report the type of high school students attended by college so its hard to get systematic data over time.
  
All that being said I think its not enough to know if a student went public or private school bc all types of high schools (public, private, charter) have a few ones with a really great reputation and a lot more with mediocre reps (for every Choate there are 10 random parochial schools that are no better than local high school in terms of academic rigor etc).  For example a college could appear less elitist if it admitted fewer students from midlevel parochial schools in favor of students from wealthy public high schools but they likely end up with more students from 1% families.  This could happen w/o doing anything different with respect to students from Choate, Andover and the DC "Big X" schools.

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I totally agree that a kid from Whitman is more likely to get a second look from top colleges than a kid from Ballou, and this isn't good. That's part of the reason APs exist--so the kid from Ballou can show colleges that she completely absorbed the material despite attending being a school known for less rigor. But APs don't solve the problem and the situation is far from ideal.

The only point that I and someone else were making is that you simple can't compare the very top privates like STA and Choate college admissions to some nebulous "all public schools" or even to TJ. Not that that poster is reading anybody's explanations about why TJ kids don't want Ivies because of (a) wanting Carnegie Mellon instead, and (b) needing merit aid which the Ivies don't give out.[/quote]

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