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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is at WIS, also many Ivy’s: Yale, Stanford, UPenn etc. Don’t see major differences with other privates [/quote]

All the privates do well. Sidwell/Maret have multiple Harvards. Much smaller than GDS. GDS did great too. Such a silly conversation. My bigger question is the percent of kids from privates at these elite schools; way more than publics. I know the kids are well prepared and great but does raise bigger questions about the whole system and the perpetuation of our privilege-based system. [/quote]

Not sure where to find the stats for other schools, but MIT has theirs posted from last year's incoming class: https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/profile/

66% were from public school, 14% from independents, 8% from religious (the rest were international or home schooled).

Sure, a larger percentage of graduating students from these prep schools are
getting in, which makes sense when  you have small class sizes with high achieving kids (and parents), but I don't think the overall student body of top universities tends to be mainly prep school kids.

That said, a lot of those public school kids at MIT are likely from the selective TJ/Blair/RM/Walls type schools around the country, or from wealthier districts. I think parent education level, income, and involvement is likely the biggest factor, regardless of public or private high school.

A Harvard admit from Sidwell with the same set of parents could likely get the same (or higher) GPA at a public, play a club sport, do the same ECs, take the same AP exams, get some private tutoring and test prep, and still get into Harvard. Which is exactly what's happening with a lot of the public school admits (said as someone who went to Yale from a selective public magnet in an already-wealthy district). I have no stats to back this up, but I'd say outside of programs like Questbridge (which I think is a great step in finding a solution to the privilege gap) most T10 students come from well-educated families.

The privilege issue is definitely real, but I think a large percentage of public school admits to these colleges are coming from the same relative degree of privilege. Prep school is a piece of the puzzle, but certainly not the main issue. [/quote]

See:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html[/quote]

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