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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it is not a negative.  For the most part, the strong private schools send a higher percentage of graduating seniors to elite schools than public schools.  You can't just look at numbers of students because of the stark difference in student population.  For example, for class of 22, Churchill HS sent approximately 7% of their graduating seniors to top 20 universities whereas strong private schools were are in the 25-35% range of graduating students.  So as a high achieving private school student at a rigorous school, you will have a much stronger chance of admission to an elite school.[/quote]

[b]You are not accounting for the fact that the reason there are higher percentage from private is because there are more hooked kids at the private. Larger presence of legacy, VIP, URM, athlete to start and especially of kids that overlap multiple categories[/b].[/quote]

Absolutely true!  When assessing college admission rates of public v. private high schools, you can't just calculate percentages.  Top privates have a much higher percentage of kids from very wealthy and/or powerful families. (Some of those kids also have multiple hooks, e.g., equestrian sports, sailing, squash, crew, etc.)  NOTE: many of those wealthy/VIP kids would not be considered "high achieving", yet they get into top 20 colleges.  In fact, they get into top 20 colleges while their unhooked but academically high achieving classmates don't.

Everyone talks about how privates send more kids to top schools.  Of course they do -- because they have so many extremely wealthy and VIP families.  The great admission stats aren't due to the private school. They're due to the power/wealth of many private school families.

Moral of the story, seldom talked about in the press: If you have an unhooked UMC kid, chances for top college admissions are better at a good public school.  [/quote]

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