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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe expand your horizons beyond the neighbor’s kid who goes to a public and got into UVa, but your friend Sally’s son didn’t despite her saying that he’s doing really well at Gonzaga.

According to the WSJ:
[i]Among all high-school students in the U.S., 8.5% attend private high schools, according to federal data. Among the eight Ivy League schools, the percentage of students who graduate from a private high school is about four to five times that.[/i]

So for every 100 spots in an Ivy League, 40 of them are taken up by a student from a private school. [/quote]
These 40 students have the strongest academic backgrounds and can afford to pay full tuition, ensuring the Ivy League school at least four years of tuition revenue. This allows the school to provide merit-based aid to attract the other 60 students with super high academic record, which contributes substantially to the school overall academic ranking.  They dont want just rich kids, but academic rich kids, so that school academic reputation is still intact.  [/quote]

I do not agree with your premise that those forty students have the strongest academic backgrounds.

Given the endowments of the Ivy League  schools and their non profit tax free status their financials would indicate that  they do not need the full pay tuition of these forty students either; so they are not filling their classes for the greater good.

If they truly exist to educate the scions of society I am ok with that - let’s just call it as it is and revoke their non-profit status.

And use the resultant tax collections to further invest in our education system and build out the college equivalents of the TJ’s, Stuyvesants, and Bronx Sciences.

We should not be hoarding the opportunities behind the veil of prestige; we should be expanding them by providing them to our best and brightest independent of SES. That’s how we grow our society.

There’s a reason Bronx Science not Andover nor Exeter has produced the most Nobel Laureates of any secondary school in this country.
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