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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slacs[/quote]

Which ones??[/quote]

Nearly all of them.[/quote]
Not much at the top. More diversity and emphasis on public schools.[/quote]

This seems to be true only of Swarthmore, which is 68 percent public school grads.  Can’t find Williams data, but Amherst and Pomona are over 40 percent from independent/parochial schools.[/quote]
Is 40% egregious now? That lines up for selecting some of the best students in the US.[/quote]

It's high considering only 10% of K-12 students in the US attend private schools. I think what you mean is "lines up for selecting some of the richest students in the US."
-private school parent.[/quote]

Well unless we know the breakdown of the applicant pool, test scores, and HS grades, there is no way to tell whether they are overrepresented or not. Private school kids get higher test scores and are more likely to apply to  these scores, so it is very possible that 4X representation at these schools is actual proportion after adjusting for confounding variables. [/quote]

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