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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep telling yourself that. Full pay really isn't a hook at schools admitting under 10 percent of applicants (and also happen to give significant financial aid).[/quote]

It's not about hooks.  It's about applying.

Our high-performing DC (Blair SMCS/1600 SAT/Nationally recognized for musical instrument) didn't apply to any elite schools because we can't pay for them.  Went to UMD-CP Honors program, graduated summa cum laude.  Fast-forward, DC is in a fully-funded PhD program at an Ivy League school.

There are lots of students like DC out there who never consider applying to elite schools.[/quote]
That only strengthens my argument that being full pay isn't a hook. If others aren't applying due to cost, and yet the applicant pool has a significant percentage of full pay families, why are the admission rates still in the single digits?[/quote]

It does show that kids from wealthy families are more likely to apply and get in. Because they can afford it, not because they are actually so much better, as so many parents like OP like to think.

But as that study shows, college admissions in the US is so much influenced by money, it’s not possible to have a level playing field. 
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