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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because those colleges know that the parents cannot afford it, and think that they will decline, thereby impacting the yield.[/quote]

I think it's as simple as this.  I saw this trend with my 2 kids - one attended private, the other public.  It wasn't super clear-cut - in fact more kids attended top 3 ivy's from the public than the private, but for schools like Colgate, Vanderbilt, Bucknell, Wake Forest, W&L etc. it seemed like private school applicants were the sweet spots and the public kids didn't get as many offers.   My DC was not Ivy material, but with okay grades got into all of the private colleges they applied to and I think our demonstrated ability to pay full freight was part of it.
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My dd is in the arts and thankfully needed an audition to get into her study not SAT scores.     Her friends weren’t the group that took all the APs or went all out with Ed’s.    She had two friends who were in all special Ed classes go to BU general studies.  Other middling students who liked to party more than study ended up in Clemson, SMU, Rollins and others. These were all full pay students who didn’t need financial aid.  Their ability to pay was everything. [/quote]

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