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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students. [/quote]

I get the sense that increasingly the early admits to top schools is populated by athletes, URM and donors. Not sure if the increased representation from local publics is accurate. I think the college reps can discern the difference between and A student at Whitman vs a B+ student at NCS if all else is equal. But who knows what’s really happening  this year. [/quote]

but that A student from Whitman has a pile of AP scores to back up the A. A ton of name privates have either limited or eliminated APs [/quote]

+2 I suspect lack of APs is hindering private school kids. Many top students at public schools will have 8 AP classes![/quote]

I don’t think this is the case.  You can always take the AP exam even if the classes are not labeled AP.  A lot of kids do this.  My own kid will have 7 AP exams by the time he graduates from a big 3.  As for higher GPAs at public schools, it doesn’t matter what GPA p[/quote]

Comparing GPA from public to private schools is apple to oranges.  Each school is being compared to his own peers at his own school. [/quote]

except that most publics will have a certain percentage not going to college or not going to a competitive college. Publics don't expel kids for barely showing up or not bothering to do the work. That's free class rank for all of the public school kids who want to go to competitive schools. Put another way, the bottom 10% of students at NCS or Sidwell are absolutely expect to go to college and at least try to do the work, the bottom 10% at Whitman likely aren't and don't [/quote]

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