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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LACs have never been widely knowledged as a model of excellence.[/quote]

Well,  obviously not to a general audience. But to the well-off and elite, they're very well-known. There's a reason boarding schools represent nearly 30-50% of the population at most LACs, even though they only educate around 10% of all high school students.

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This statistic is obviously garbage.  If boarding school students are 30-50% of students at  schools which educate 10% of all high school students, that suggests that 3-5% of colleg-bound high school students in the US are at boarding school.  That seems totally wrong.
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It meant to say private school instead of boarding school. Many of the numbers below exclude parochial schools, which would also be considered private. Most sources do say 10% of all grade school kids go to private schools (here's one: http://www.capenet.org/facts.html). Furthermore, the majority of them attend parochial schools, but parochial kids do not make a majority of the private schools represented at the liberal art colleges, so the non-parochial private schools are even more heavily represented.

https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/669797 (private schools = 34% of enrolled students)
https://admission.williams.edu/files/Student-Profile-2016-2017.pdf (private = 32%)
https://www.colgate.edu/admission-financial-aid/first-year-class-profile (private, 44%)
https://www.davidson.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/class-of-2020-profile (independent, 44.4%)
http://www.bates.edu/admission/student-profile/ (independent, 48%)[/quote]

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