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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That list sucks.[/quote]

First, that "list" is cherrypicking the lower-rated colleges in the five-year matriculations -- and many of those are still very good institutions.  (Sewanee and Furman are both well-regarded SLACs in the college world, for example.)

Second, just taking last year, St. Albans had 7 members of the class of 2013 matriculating at Harvard and 5 at Yale -- throw in the one Princeton student, and that is almost 20% of the class at HYP alone.   So the idea that St. Albans somehow has poor college admissions is just silly.

Third, anyone who is referencing the 1980s and college admissions really needs to do some reading.  The playing field has changed immensely.  For example, Yale in the mid-1980s had about 10-20 international students at most in any graduating class.  Now they get hundreds of applications from China alone, many with perfect board scores.  The admissions rate at HYP and similar schools now is in the single-digits -- far lower than a generation ago.

There does not seem to be an educated or reasoned discussion of college admissions on this thread.[/quote]

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