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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.[/quote]

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?[/quote]

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.[/quote]

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools. [/quote]

You have to compare percentages, not numbers.  Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools?  I think not.[/quote]

I disagree. To address the topic of this thread, that selective colleges are "taking fewer kids from private," you have to compare numbers. The matriculating class at a university is about number of seats, and that is the topic here. They took 24 from Private A (St. A) and 80 from public B (TJ). In other words, fewer from private, as the title of the thread says. Not only did Public B send more kids, but that also means the school had a larger cohort of top students for your kid to hob nob with - more than 3x as many. The percentage is totally irrelevant to this issue. Would you say homeschool C sends more kids to Ivy than anyone else because 50% of the class of 2 went to ivy? Of course not.

Of course the public schools don't and can't sent 50% of 500 students from all walks of life to top universities. It is ridiculous to attempt such a comparison. [/quote]

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