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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]

That's the wrong data to consider though. In the class of '22 331,584 student in the U.S. graduated from private high schools. However, not all of the schools counted are college preparatory, as the data includes specialized schools, alternative schools, special education schools, and private institutions for a variety of special needs. Only about 70% of the private school were categorized as regular secondary schools. So the relevant data point is that 62.5 percent of the private school class of '22 matriculated to 4-year colleges, or about [/quote]

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